McCall v. Sustair

Claek, 0. J.

This is an action for slander, on an allegation that tbe defendant bad charged tbe plaintiff with stealing cotton, said charge having been made on three several occasions, viz., to John Cochrane, to L. A. Ferguson, and to Charles Simpson. Neither justification nor privilege was pleaded, but a denial of having charged the plaintiff with larceny.

*180Tbe issues submitted were:

“Did tbe defendant speak and publish of and concerning tbe plaintiff tbe alleged slanderous words set out in article 1 of tbe complaint witb tbe intent to thereby charge tbe plaintiff with tbe crime of larceny?”

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