Legal Opinion
Blount v. Mason
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided May 12, 1905No. Docket No. 68PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Error to Hillsdale; Chester J. Case by Ered Blount against Melvin Mason for slander. There was judgment for defendant on demurrer to the declaration, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
This is an action brought for slander. The declaration contains five counts. The first one, after the usual statement that plaintiff was a person of good name, etc., avers:
“Yet the defendant, well knowing the premises, but contriving and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff, and to bring him into public scandal and disgrace, heretofore, to wit, on the 19th day of June, A. D. 1903, at the county aforesaid, in a certain discourse which he then and there had of and concerning the plaintiff in the presence and hearing of and to one William Salmon, a reputable and influential citizen of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Vickers v. StonemanMichigan Supreme Court · 1889
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- Hewitt v. MorleyMichigan Supreme Court · 1896
3Cited by1 opinion
- Friedman v. ConnorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935