Sheehan v. Pierce
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term. Action by Timothy Sheehan against Albert H. Pierce. From an interlocutory judgment sustaining a demurrer to the answer, and from the order on which the same was rendered, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The action is for slander. It is alleged in the plaintiff’s complaint that on or about the 3d day of January, 1892, the defendant, in the presence of one Harriet Pierce, maliciously accused the plaintiff of stealing wood from the defendant, and of being a thief. It is charged in the complaint that the words were addressed to the plaintiff personally. The defendant, in the fifth count of his answer, sets up by way of counterclaim to the plaintiff’s cause of action that on the occasion referred to in the plaintiff’s complaint the plaintiff was upon the defendant’s premises, engaged in removing…
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