Phillips v. Bradshaw
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. Charles A. Senn. Action for libel and slander by L. W. Phillips against Caldwell Bradshaw. Judgment for defendant and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. Charles A. Senn. Action for libel and slander by L. W. Phillips against Caldwell Bradshaw. Judgment for defendant and plaintiff appeals. Mrs. Christlieb testified in substance that somewhere between the 1st and 15th day of April, 1908, Caldwell Bradshaw came into the lobby of the Colonial Hotel in Birmingham, Ala., and stated to her that the plaintiff stole 15 bales of cotton from the Birmingham Industrial Company’s farm before Bradshaw could get over to Columbus, Ga. On cross-examination she testified as to ' certain matters connected with…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Appellant sued appellee for slander. The complaint was that defendant had falsely and maliciously, in the presence of divers persons at the Colonial Hotel in the city of Birmingham, on April 4, 1908, charged the plaintiff with the larceny of 15 bales of cotton. The plea was not guilty. Plaintiff had sold and conveyed a plantation in Russell county to the *206Birmingham Industrial Company on June 12, 1907. Three days later the parties to the conveyance, the industrial company acting through Bradshaw, its president, had entered into a contract in writing, under which plaintiff had entered upon the…
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