Gattis v. Kilgo.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActxoN by T. J. Gatt-is against John O. Kilgo and others, heard by Judge Thos. J. Shaiv and a jury, at November Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of Granville County. From a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMoNtgomeRy, J.
In the opinion of the Court delivered at the February Term, 1901, and published in 128 N. C., 402, it was said: “Whether or not the speech of the defendant Kilgo, published by the defendants in pamphlet form and embodied with the whole proceeding in the matter of the investigation, was a privileged communication (and it would have been more accurate to have said a privileged occasion), was a question of law, there having been no dispute or uncertainty as to the circumstances attending the publication, and his Honor properly tried the case as one of qualified privilege.” In the new trial…
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