Hitchcock v. Moore
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Oakland. (Moore, J.) Case for slander. Plaintiff brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
This is an action for slander arising in White Lake, Oakland county, and tried in the circuit court for that-county. Verdict and judgment went for the defendant.
It was charged in the declaration that the defendant had wrongfully accused, in various words and ways, the plaintiff' of burning defendant’s barn in August, 1886.
The plea was the general issue.
We shall consider the errors assigned in the order in which they were argued before us
First. Upon the cross-examination of the plaintiff he was-asked questions concerning his treatment of his wife, who was. a daughter of the defendant, and if…
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