Redway v. Gray
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for slander. The substance of the first count of the declaration was, that the defendant falsely said of the plaintiff, “ Alonzo Redway will steal. I-Ie has stolen hay from Dennis Gray’s barn.”
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Case for slander. The substance of the first count of the declaration was, that the defendant falsely said of the plaintiff, “ Alonzo Redway will steal. I-Ie has stolen hay from Dennis Gray’s barn.” The second count was substantially as follows i “Also in a further plea of the case, whereupon the plaintiff declares and says, that from his childhood he has been a person of good fame and credit, and of integrity in his business, and for more than ten years last past has been an extensive dealer in produce, whereby he has made great gain and profit; that heretofore, to wit, on the 19th day of…
1Opinion of the CourtPoland, J.
I. As to the question raised upon the trial, whether it is actionable to charge one with stealing property of a less value than seven dollars, where the extent of the punishment provided by law, is a fine of twenty dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not more than three months, we are all agreed that such words are actionable. They impute an infamous crime, involving moral turpitude, and subject the person guilty of such an offence to .corporal punishment, and it has always been held, that when all these concur, the words are actionable per se. In the case of Billings v. Wing, 7 Vt.…
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