Ward v. Dick
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for Slander, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the jury before Beardsley, J. Verdict for the plaintiff and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
This is an action for slander in imputing dishonesty to the plaintiff.
After proof of the speaking of the defamatory words had been made, the defendant, for the purpose of lessening the damages, offered evidence tending to prove that before the speaking the plaintiff’s reputation for honesty was below that of men in general; the court limited him to ten witnesses upon that point; the plaintiff had a verdict for $1,000, and .the defendant complains of the restriction.
The subject matter of the inquiry was the value of a reputation. To the law this is a tangible thing; it is property in the…
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