McIntosh v. Matherly

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a suit of slander for the publication of a libel. The plaintiff read on the trial, a letter written to him by the defendant, and proved the previous existence of a bad state of feeling between the parties. This being all the evidence, the Court, at the instance of the defendant, instructed the jury to find as in .the' case of a non-suit. A verdict having been returned in conformity with the instructions of the Court, and a motion for a new trial overruled, a judgment, was ren*120dered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff has…