Bradstreet Co. v. Oswald
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Eve. City court of Richmond county. November term, 1894. To the declaration of Oswald v. The Bradstreet Company, defendant filed a demurrer. Plaintiff amended the declaration, and defendant filed written objections thereto, and subject to the same, offered grounds of special demurrer. The demurrers were oven’uled, and defendant excepted.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Eve. City court of Richmond county. November term, 1894. To the declaration of Oswald v. The Bradstreet Company, defendant filed a demurrer. Plaintiff amended the declaration, and defendant filed written objections thereto, and subject to the same, offered grounds of special demurrer. The demurrers were oven’uled, and defendant excepted. The declaration alleges, that in 1892, and for some years previously, plaintiff' was engaged in a general merchandise business at Allendale, S. C., and had built up a large, remunerative and profitable business, and his…
1Opinion of the Court
Atkinson, Justice.
The official report sufficiently states the facts.
1. We think the declaration contains such a substantial cause of action as would prevail against a gen*401■eral demurrer. It alleged that the defendant caused to be circulated, concerning the plaintiff and the business in which he was engaged, a certain rumor which was wholly false and unfounded, and which, if believed, was calculated seriously to embarrass him in his business. It is a rule of law of universal application, that wherever one person commits a wrong upon the person, property or reputation of another, which is…
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