McClurkin v. Ewing
Illinois Supreme Court
Wett of Ebeoe to the Circuit Court of Washington county; the Hon. Silas L. Bbyan, Judge, presiding. This was an action for slander brought in the court below by Mary McClurkin against Samuel Ewing; a trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The cause is brought to this court by the plaintiff, on writ of error.
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Wett of Ebeoe to the Circuit Court of Washington county; the Hon. Silas L. Bbyan, Judge, presiding. This was an action for slander brought in the court below by Mary McClurkin against Samuel Ewing; a trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The cause is brought to this court by the plaintiff, on writ of error. The declaration alleges, substantially, that the defendant charged the plaintiff, who was an unmarried woman, as being the mother of a child that was found in a basket at a neighbor’s door. The only question properly arising under the assignment of errors is in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an action of slander brought in the Circuit Court of Washington county, by Mary MeClurkin against Samuel Ewing and a trial and verdict for the defendant. A motion was made for a new trial, without assigning any reasons therefor, and overruled, to which the plaintiff excepted.
The bill of exceptions contains all the evidence given on the trial, and the instructions of the court, and concludes thus: “ To the giving of which instructions the plaintiff at the time objected, which objection the court overruled, and to which judgment of the court in the form of said instruction, the…
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