Breeding v. Napier

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

— Reversing.

This is a suit for slander in which the appellant, who was the plaintiff below, seeks to recover the sum of $15,-000 from the appellee, C. W. Napier, who is alleged to have said of, and concerning, the plaintiff, in the presence of a number of persons, that he, the plaintiff, was a lie-swearing s-of a b-. The alleged slanderous statement was made at the taking of depositions in an election contest case in which the defendant’s brother was the contestee, and, at the time it was made, the deposition of appellant was being taken and he was being…