Richardson v. Northrup
New York Supreme Court
MOTION for a new trial, on the part of the plaintiff, upon bill of exceptions taken at the circuit and directed to be heard in the first instance at the general term. The action was for slander, and the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff for six cents.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Foster, J.
The plaintiff’s complaint claimed that two actions had been tried in justices’ courts, in each of which the plaintiff and one Start were sworn as witnesses, and gave material testimony, and that the defendant afterwards, and on four different occasions, to wit, on or about the first of October, 1863, and the first days of January, March and June, 1864, when speaking thereof, charged that the plaintiff had sworn false, and been guilty of perjury, and had suborned Start to commit the same offense.
The answer of the defendant denied ‘the allegations of the complaint, and in…
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