Burns v. . Williams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil Action for slander tried at Spring Term, 1882, of CHATHAM Superior Court, before Graves, J. The action against- the defendants is for verbal slander, and the complaint alleges two independent and separate causes of action.
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Civil Action for slander tried at Spring Term, 1882, of CHATHAM Superior Court, before Graves, J. The action against- the defendants is for verbal slander, and the complaint alleges two independent and separate causes of action. It sets out in detail, with the attending incidents, a conversation at the house of the plaintiff between his wife and the defendant, Oran Williams, on January 3d-, 1881, the other defendants, his brother and brother’s son, who had gone there with him, being present but saying nothing, the substance of which was that two hogs, belonging to the brother, Joseph…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
after stating the facts. It will be seen on examining the structure of the complaint (and we advert to it to avoid misconstruction from our silence) that it imputes the utterance of the alleged defamatory words to all the defendants and to each one of them, while its statement is that, of the three who went to the plaintiff’s house in search of the missing hogs, but one of them, Oran, said anything, and the others were present but took no part in the conversation, and that only one of them, the defen-' dant, John A., was present, and’ said and did what is alleged to have taken…
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