Johnson v. Dicken
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Stoddard Circuit Court. I. The court erred in giving the instruction asked for by plaintiff. The words alleged in the petition are not of themselves slanderous. There is no allegation that by the laws of Illinois taking or stealing of corn is a crime, and the courts of this state will not take judicial notice of the laws of ano-tlier state regulating tbeir own internal affairs.
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Appeal from, Stoddard Circuit Court. I. The court erred in giving the instruction asked for by plaintiff. The words alleged in the petition are not of themselves slanderous. There is no allegation that by the laws of Illinois taking or stealing of corn is a crime, and the courts of this state will not take judicial notice of the laws of ano-tlier state regulating tbeir own internal affairs. Nor is there any allegation that he meant by the words used to charge plaintiff with a felonious stealing. It was error then to charge the jury that proof of the words alleged in the petition was…
1Opinion of the CourtRiohardson, Judge
This was an action of slander commenced in 1855, and the petition was as follows: “ The plaintiff states that on or about the first day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, at the county of Stoddard, in the state of Missouri, the defendant, said Christopher Dick-en, spoke the following false and slanderous words concerning the plaintiff — that is to say, that plaintiff had stolen corn in Illinois and had to run away from there for it, and he (defendant) could prove it; and that the wife of the defendant *582bad stolen a wagon load of corn, and that he dared…
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