Flint v. Clark
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of slander. There were several counts, in each of which the words charged imputed unchas-tity to the plaintiff.
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This was an action of slander. There were several counts, in each of which the words charged imputed unchas-tity to the plaintiff. The last count was as follows : That at Hampton, on the 1st of December, 1835, in a certain discourse which the defendant then and there held with the plaintiff, in the presence and hearing of divers good citizens of this state, he, the defendant, speaking of and concerning the several scandalous and defamatory charges against the plaintiff in the preceding counts in this declaration specified, and of the fact, that a certain other person, then and there named,…
1Opinion of the CourtHuntingtox, J.
Several exceptions have been taken to . the proceedings in the court below, which are now to be examined.
It is said, the testimony of Nathaniel Flint and the writ in the case of the plaintiff against Amanda Hall, should have been rejected. The ground of the objection to the testimony of Flint, is not stated in the motion; and the only reason there assigned for the rejection of the writ, is, that it was not proved that the defendant had ever seen it, or that he knew its contents. It has been claimed, however, in this court, that the whole of this evidence was inadmissible, because there is no…
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