Secor v. Harris

This is an action for slander. Upon .the trial of the cause the plaintiff proved the following words, which were also alleged in the complaint: “ Doctor Secor killed my children” “ He gave them tea-spoonful doses of calomel, and they died.” “Dr. Secor gave them tea-spoonful doses of calomel, and it killed them ; they did not live long after they took it. They died right off—the same day.” The plaintiff was proved to be a practising physician, and the evidence shows that he had practised in the defendant’s family, and had prescribed for the defendant’s children, and that the words were spoken…