Skillman v. Downs
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dra-r. AFTEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING. This is an action of slander.
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Eastern Dra-r. AFTEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING. This is an action of slander. The plaintiff -alleges that the defendant wickedly and maliciously slandered him, by uttering, publishing and charging him on the 2d of January, 1834, with being guilty, a day or two before he (plaintiff) made a surrender of his property, of fraud towards his other creditors, in baling and packing up his goods, and sending them to New-Orleans,” meaning thereby that he, plaintiff, in defiance of law and every other obligation, did willfully wrong, cheat and…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This is an action of slander, in which the plaintiff claims damages in reparation of injury to his chamcter, done on the part of the defendant, by charging him with the commission of acts of fraud against the rights of the mass of his creditors, immediately previous to his insolvency and cessio bonorum. The answer to the petition contains a general denial, and also a plea of justification. These pleas se.em to have been viewed by the court below as incon*106sistent, and the first was held to be superseded by the second, and the cause was tried on the issue made between the allegations of the…
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