Barnes v. . Crawford
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This is a civil ACTION for damages caused by the use of alleged slanderous words, heard on complaint and demurrer by Hoke, J., at February Term, 1894, of Wake Superior Court. The plaintiff appealed from the judgment sustaining the demurrer and refusing an amendment to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
MacRae, J.:
The slanderous words alleged to have been spoken by defendant are: “ I did not sign the demand num bered six on the said card. My name has been forged to it by Barnes” (meaning the plaintiff). “Otho Wilson, and others got it (meaning the card) up, and they are forgers, frauds and liars. They (meaning the plaintiff and others) have forged my name to the card.”
We give this, sentence with the punctuation as appears in the record. It might in some case be necessary to send down for the original, but we do not deem it to be so here.
Without entering into a consideration of the nice…
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