Williams v. McManus

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The defendant appeals from a judgment, based on the verdict of a jury, sentencing him to pay to the plaintiff $2,500 damages, for slandering her.

The charge is that the defendant publicly denounced the plaintiff, on the streets of Alexandria, in the hearing of a number of witnesses, as a damned whore, her daughters as damned shuts, and her sons as dastards; that these epithets were repeated at least half a dozen times; that they are false, wilful, malicious and slanderous; that they were uttered without cause, and have injured the good…