Beazley v. Reid
Supreme Court of Georgia
Charge of Court. Libel. Verdict. Before Judge POT-TLE. Taliaferro Superior Court. February Term, 188 r. A. G. Beazley and his wife, Emma, brought suit for libel in the superior court of Taliaferro county against certain female defendants, members of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, organized for the purpose of erecting a fence around the public cemetery in the town of Crawfordville, of which society the plaintiff (Mrs. Beazley) was a member.
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Charge of Court. Libel. Verdict. Before Judge POT-TLE. Taliaferro Superior Court. February Term, 188 r. A. G. Beazley and his wife, Emma, brought suit for libel in the superior court of Taliaferro county against certain female defendants, members of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, organized for the purpose of erecting a fence around the public cemetery in the town of Crawfordville, of which society the plaintiff (Mrs. Beazley) was a member. The ground of the action was a publication by defendants concerning the plaintiff in the Democrat, a newspaper of said county. The language complained of…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This case presents an unfortunate controversy arising among ladies, and we forbear to say aught about it except to rule the dry law of the case.
1. The court left it to the jury to say whether the words published were libellous. His language is “that he could not tell them whether the words declared upon were libellous or not in law and reading to them from the Code the definition of libel, he left it to them to say whether the words were libellous or not. On this statement of the court error is assigned here, the motion for a new trial being based thereon.
We think that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Park & Iverson v. Piedmont & Arlington Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1874
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- Southeastern Newspapers Inc. v. WalkerCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1947
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