Evans v. Tibbins

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Woodward, J.

— The action is for words, and the defendants have put in a general demurrer to the plaintiff’s narr., which consists of several counts. If some counts are defective, the plaintiff will still be entitled to judgment, if any of them are sufficient in law to support the action. 1 Saunders, 286.

The words, as laid in the first count, are, that “Augustus,” (meaning the son of J. T. Yankirk,) “caught them (meaning the said plaintiff and the said J. T. Yankirk,) “together in the packing-room, and went home and told his mother.” No special damage…