Savoie v. Scanlan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Thirteenth District Court, Parish of Acadia. Lewis, J. 1. JCvery act whatever of man, that causes damages to another, obliges him b> whose fault it happened to repair it. C. t.’. 2315. 2. In an action of slander the only possible defenses are: either a denial or a justification, or a confession under'mitigating circumstances. R. S. 3640; 14 An. 406; 15 An. 166; 36 An. 469; 38 An. 162. - •3. There is no such tiling in law as a half way justification.
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APPEAL from the Thirteenth District Court, Parish of Acadia. Lewis, J. 1. JCvery act whatever of man, that causes damages to another, obliges him b> whose fault it happened to repair it. C. t.’. 2315. 2. In an action of slander the only possible defenses are: either a denial or a justification, or a confession under'mitigating circumstances. R. S. 3640; 14 An. 406; 15 An. 166; 36 An. 469; 38 An. 162. - •3. There is no such tiling in law as a half way justification. Townsend, Libel and Slander, Par. 212, and note. 4. An answer which both denies and justifies, equivocates and is inconsistent.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
Plaintiff is appellant from an adverse judgment based on the verdict of a jury, rejecting his demand against the de-, fendant of $5000 damages for slander and defamation of character.
The charge made in the petition is, that at the store of one Mc-Clelland, in the parish of St. Landry, on the 20th of October, 1888, same being a public place, the defendant, Michael Seanlan, in a public manner, and in the presence and hearing of the bystanders who had congregated there, “maliciously, wickedly, slanderously, libel - ously, and with the malicious…
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