Cates v. Kellogg

Perkins J.

Slander. Judgment below for the plaintiff.

The complaint was by a physician. The words alleged to have been spoken were not actionable in themselves. They had reference to a charge made by the plaintiff for professional service, and produced, it is alleged, special damages, by causing a loss of employment.

Answer by the defendant in denial, and by special paragraphs.

On the trial the defendant, says the bill of exceptions, “offered to prove by one William Silvers, a competent witness, that in the latter part of June, 1855, at the request of the defendant, he called on the plaintiff,…