Sidgreaves v. Myatt
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ereor to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Johw Gill Shorter. This was an action of slander, brought by Elizabeth Myatt against Margaret Sidgreaves, to recover damages for certain slanderous words spoken by defendant, of and concerning plaintiff, imputing to her a want of chastity.
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Ereor to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Johw Gill Shorter. This was an action of slander, brought by Elizabeth Myatt against Margaret Sidgreaves, to recover damages for certain slanderous words spoken by defendant, of and concerning plaintiff, imputing to her a want of chastity. On the trial below, a bill of exceptions was allowed, from which it appears, that the plaintiff was a niece of the defendant ; that she was an English woman, and came to this country in 1849 with defendant, and stopped in Mobile; that in June, 1851, she came to Montgomery, in company with…
1Opinion of the CourtGibbons, J.
This action seems to baye been brought under the act of tbe legislature of 1880, which, is in these words: “ All words spoken and published of any female person of this State, falsely and maliciously imputing to such female a want of chastity, shall, by the several courts of this State haying jurisdiction thereof, be deemed and held actionable in themselves, without any averment or proof of special damages; and the person or persons injured may maintain an action thereon, as in other cases of slander.”
The charge of the court and refusals to charge raise the question whether a female of…
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