Haskins v. Jordan
California Supreme Court
APPEALS from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco and from an order denying a motion to offset judgments. A. A. Sanderson, Judge, The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
The action was for slander, and plaintiff recovered. Two appeals are before this court, the one (S. F. No. 863) from the judgment, the other (S. F. No. 862) from an order given after judgment.
1. Upon appeal from the judgment, the only contention argued is that the complaint fails to state a cause of action, in that *159it nowhere avers that the words uttered and published of plaintiff by defendant were false. The complaint alleged: “That heretofore, on the twenty-sixth day of December, A. D. 1894, the defendant spoke, in the hearing of C. C. Loomis, J. P. McElroy, Thomas Grossman, and sundry…
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