Wildee v. McKee
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, No. 183. This action was brought by John Wildee against Alexander McC. Milligan, John A. McKee, James R. W. Sloane, and David B. Wilson, in which the defendants were summoned to answer a plea of trespass on the case for conspiracy.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, No. 183. This action was brought by John Wildee against Alexander McC. Milligan, John A. McKee, James R. W. Sloane, and David B. Wilson, in which the defendants were summoned to answer a plea of trespass on the case for conspiracy. The declaration is against A. M. Milligan, J. A. McKee, J. R. W. Sloane, and D. B. Wilson, as having conspired with G. M. Elliot, Mary Miller, J. H. Pickens, and Duncan Echols, in the Commonwealth of Alabama; J. M. Faris, in the Commonwealth of Illinois; and David B. Gregg,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
It cannot be doubted that trespass on the case for conspiracy to defame and thereby injure another in his particular avocation or business may be maintained whenever, in pursuance of such unlawful combination, means have been employed which tended to effectuate and, to a greater or less extent, accomplished the object of the conspirators: Mott v. Danforth, 6 Watts, 304-6; Haldeman v. Martin, 10 Barr., 369; Hood v. Palm., 8 Id., 237-9. In the last case it is said: “A conspiracy to defame by spoken words, not actionable, would be a subject of prosecution by indictment; and if so, then equally…
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