Johnson v. Brown
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
The defendant demurred to the declaration in slander. cited the Maryland law of 1717, e. 13, \ 5; Eden v. Logaré, 1 Bay, 169; Wood v. King, 1 Nott & McCord, 185; Aihinson v. Hartley, 1 McCord, 103, 203 ; Starkie on Slander, 19, note ; Id. 21. cited Starkie on Slander, 47.
1Opinion of the Court 1
The case being submitted on those authorities,
2Opinion of the Court · CranchCranch, C. J.
con.,)'as follows: —
Slander; in saying of the plaintiff, “he.is .a yellow negro, son of a bitch, a villain, and a liar.”
The declaration avers, that the plaintiff' is a free white male citizen of the United States, and had contracted matrimony with a free, white, female citizen of the United States. That the defendant, knowing the premises, and maliciously intending to bring the plaintiff into disgrace, and to subject him to the pains and penalties of the laws made and provided against mulattoes or. negroes contracting matrimony with white women,…
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