Legal Opinion

Cade v. Redditt

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided July 15, 1860PublishedCited by 5 opinions

APPEAL from the District Court of the Parish of Caldwell, Mayo, J.

1Opinion of the CourtVookhies, J.

The plaintiff, a married woman, claims of the defendant the sum of $10,000, being for damages occasioned by the latter’s alleged libellous and slanderous charges.

The defence is the general denial, as regards all the charges, excepting one, the truth of which is specially pleaded.

The allegations in the petition are, that the defendant has maliciously defamed the plaintiff, by preferring the following accusations, to-wit: that she was an unchaste woman, and had committed adultery with several persons ; that she had criminally destroyed two of her children, and would doubtless destroy the…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Miller, Smith and Champagne v. Capital City PressLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1962
  2. Rigaud v. GarveyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1928
  3. Alloway v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1925
  4. Paul v. ArnoultLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1927
  5. Williams v. PerloffLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1924

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