Boullemet v. Philips

The defendant is appellant from a judgment on a verdict for the sum of four thousand dollars, in an action of slander. The words charged in the petition are, that the plaintiff’s family are not white, meaning that he was a colored person; and, farther, that his mother was a colored woman and of mixed negro blood. The plaintiff avers that his mother and all his family are, in fact, white persons. The words charged were proved to have been spoken by the defendant; but no circumstance was shown, from which it might be inferred that they were spoken with the least degree of malice. A crowd of…