Legal Opinion
Tidmore v. Mills
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided August 15, 1947No. 2 Div. 756PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARR, Judge.
The judgment in the court below responds to a verdict in favor of the plaintiff under Count 3 of the complaint. The Reporter will set out this count in the report of the case.
The claimed faults of the count are attacked by both a motion to strike certain parts thereof and also by demurrers.
By the approaches indicated it is posed, inter alia, that the innuendo or explanatory averments unduly enlarged the purport of the expressed or published words beyond their natural or accepted meaning. It is a legal truism that to do so would violate a rule of pleading in libel causes. Penry v.…
2Cases cited73 opinions
- Cobb v. MaloneSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
- McMillan v. AikenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
- Johnson v. BrownWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1878
- Berry v. City of New York Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1923
- Marion v. DavisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. DaughertySupreme Court of Alabama · 2002
- McGraw v. ThomasonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1957
- Bryan v. BrownSupreme Court of Alabama · 1976
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