Harvey v. Coffin

This was an action of slander by Coffin against Harvey. At the commencement of the suit the plaintiff was an infant,'and' appeared by. Jethro Coffin his next friend. The declaration contains two counts. The first count charges,, that on, &c., there was a’certain false report in circulation, that is, that the. plaintiff and others being sons of Jethro Coffin, had stolen corn from said defendant; that the plaintiff was then, and had been for a long time, to wit, &c., a wagoner, and was the only one of the sons of said Jethro who was a wagoner; that the. plaintiff while' so engaged as, a…