Foot v. Glover

This was an action of slander in which Glover was the plaintiff and Foot the defendant. The words for which the suit was brought were, that the plaintiff had sworn false in an affidavit, which he had made for the continuance of a certain cause, in which he was a defendant and Foot the plaintiff. To this action of slander, the defendant pleaded in justification that the words were true; and upon this plea issue was joined.

On the trial of the cause, it became material for the plaintiff to show what had been the matter in issue between the parties in the previous action, in which the affidavit…