Dedway v. Powell
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 19 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM GREENUP CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 2 Greenleaf sec. 414. 3 Blackstone, Sharswoods ed., 122, sec. 5. 4 Bibb, 99 ; Martin vs. Melton. CITED— 10 i?. Mon., 418; Mills and wife vs. Wimp. 5 Mon., 396; Wiley vs. Campbell. Cook on Defamation, pp. 9, 13, 14.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Williams
Appellee was a witness on a trial before a justice of the peace between George Wallace and appellant, and to a question by the latter, on cross-examination, he made answer, to which appellant replied, “ It is not so; ” and to the answer of appellee to another cross-question, he replied “ It’s not so — no such thing!” Upon the trial of this action of slander, the witnesses stated that these replies by appellant were “ in an excited, angry tone, which produced some consternation in the crowd; ” and “that the manner and tone of the expressions of Dedway induced them to believe that he meant that…
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