Wheeler v. Robb

After the testimony was closed, the following instruction to the jury was asked of the Court, on the part of the defendant: “that the words laid in the declaration musíbe proved, and that equivalent expressions will not suffice;” which instruction the Court refused to give. In Maitland v. Goldney, 2 East, 426, Mr. Justice Lawrence, in speaking of the action of slander, observes, “I take the rule in actions of this *331sort to be, that though the plaintiff need not prove all the-words laid, yet he must prove so much of them as is sufficient to-sustain his cause of action, and it is not enough for…