Legal Opinion
Chesapeake Ferry Co. v. Hudgins
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 15, 1931PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEpes, J.
J. L. Hudgins brought his action for slander in the Circuit Court for the city of Norfolk against Chesapeake Ferry Company and DeWitt C. Eldredge, its general manager. The declaration contained two counts. One charges slander under the common law. The other charges the use of insulting words under section 5781, Virginia Code 1919.
The language charged is the same in both counts, to-wit, that on November 15, 1927, DeWitt C. Eldredge, in his capacity as superintendent of the Chesapeake Ferry Company, and in the course of his employment, spoke the following words (the innuendoes alleged are…
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