Nichols v. Guy

This was an action of slander brought by Guy against Nichols. The declaration, after alleging that the defendant intended, maliciously and wickedly, to destroy the plaintiff’s character, &c., laid the words as follows :

First — “Silas Guy, (meaning the plaintiff,) had the clap(meaning that the plaintiff had, at the time said words were spoken as aforesaid, a certain foul and loathsome disorder called the clap).

Secondly — “Silas Guy, (meaning the plaintiff,) has the clap(meaning that the plaintiff had a certain foul and loathsome disease called the clap, at the time the words were spoken as…