Rivers v. Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Yazoo county. Hon. David M. Miller, Judge. Rivers, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of defendant, the plaintiff appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Yazoo county. Hon. David M. Miller, Judge. Rivers, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment in favor of defendant, the plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. Plaintiff’s suit, as originally filed, was for slander, his declaration being in two counts, each of which set out certain alleged slanderous words uttered, June 7, 1905, concerning him by an employe of thé railroad company. The declaration was filed June 1, 1906, the suit being instituted within a few days of the expiration of one year…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The action of the court below in overruling the demurrer of *211the plaintiff to the defendant’s third plea is affirmed; but the court below erred in sustaining the demurrer of the defendant to the second, third, and fourth counts of the amended declaration. The doctrine has long been exploded that a corporation is not liable for slander because, as it was ridiculously expressed, there could be “no agency to slander.” The true doctrine is that set forth in Clark & Marshall on Corporations, vol. 1, pp. 627-629: “It has been said that corporations…
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