Corbley v. Wilson

This was an action on the case, for slander, brought to the circuit court of Vermilion county, by Benjamin Wilson, against Edward Corbley, to which the defendant pleaded the general issue, and a special plea of justification, that the words spoken were true.

The jury found the defendant guilty, and assessed the damages at six thousand seven hundred dollars, on which the court rendered judgment, having overruled defendant’s motion for a new trial. To reverse this judgment is the j>urpose of this appeal.

The charge made by the defendant against the plaintiff was, the commission of a crime the…