Rigden v. Wolcott
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. Actions on the case for slanderous words, spoken by the appellant of the appellees, instituted on the 8th of June, 1830. Issues were joined upon the pleas of not guilty. The circumstances of these cases are sufficiently stated by the judge who delivered the opinion of this court. The appeals were taken by the defendant, the verdict and judgment of the county court (Hanson, A. J. presiding) being in favour of the plaintiffs in that court.
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action of slander, in which issue was joined on the plea of not guilty.
At the trial below, the speaking of the words charged in the declaration being proved, the defendant offered evidence in mitigation of damages, of probable cause of suspicion at the time of speaking the words complained of, not amounting to proof of their truth; accompanied by a disclaimer of any intention to prove the commission by the *417plaintiff of the crime imputed to him; and by notice to the plaintiff given some time before the trial of the proof intended…
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