Fleer v. Reagan
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 199, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Delaware Co., for defendant on trial by court without a jury in case of Frank H. Fleer v. James Reagan. Trespass for slander. Before Johnson, P. J., without a jury. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. Errors assigned were findings of fact and conclusions of law of the court without any intermediate exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
This action of trespass for • slanderous Avords spoken, was brought by Frank H. Fleer against James Reagan, and tried before the president judge of the court of common pleas of Delaware county without a jury, under an agreement by the parties for that purpose. The Avords were uttered by the defendant in a speech at a public caucus of citizens of the borough of Yeadon, when he was a candidate for the office of councilman of that borough, and at Avliich the plaintiff made a speech against him.
In the plaintiff’s statement of the cause of action' it is alleged, in substance,…
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