Vliet v. Rowe
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court for Milwaukee County. Yliet brought an action against Rowe for slander, in charging that Yliet had sworn falsely as a witness on the trial of a cause before a justice of the peace.
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ERROR to the District Court for Milwaukee County. Yliet brought an action against Rowe for slander, in charging that Yliet had sworn falsely as a witness on the trial of a cause before a justice of the peace. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the court. 1. Where the charge of perjury is general with an allusion to judicial proceedings, the words are slanderous, and it is not necessary for the plaintiff to prove the materiality of the testimony which it was charged was false. Evidence, necessarily implies materiality ; testimony, may or may not be material. Jacobs v. Tyler, 3 Hill,…
1Opinion of the CourtIrvin, J.
This case came up on error to the district court for Milwaukee county, on a judgment given on a trial at the June term of this year.
The slander complained of by the plaintiff and charged against the defendant (although stated in all the modes and changes in which such matters may be set out in a declaration), was substantially that the defendant had charged the plaintiff with false swearing as a witness in the trial of a cause before a justice of the peace. The proof was, that “in October, 1852, the said defendant (referring to a trial before had before one Messenger, a justice of the peace,…
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