Hall v. White
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of debt on a recognizance of the defendants as special bail. The facts, as stated by the judge of the superior court, for the purpose of taking the advice of this court thereon, were as follows: On the 24th day of November, 1853, the present plaintiff brought an action on the case for slander, against Horace Booth, and Harriet Booth his wife, for words spoken by the wife, to the county court for Fairfield county.
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Action of debt on a recognizance of the defendants as special bail. The facts, as stated by the judge of the superior court, for the purpose of taking the advice of this court thereon, were as follows: On the 24th day of November, 1853, the present plaintiff brought an action on the case for slander, against Horace Booth, and Harriet Booth his wife, for words spoken by the wife, to the county court for Fairfield county. The officer serving the writ, which was one of attachment against the bodies of the defendants, arrested both the said Horace and Harriet Booth, and both gave bail to the…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
This is an action of debt, on a recognizance of special bail for Horace Booth and Harriet his wife, in an action of slander for words uttered by the wife, in which action Hall, the present plaintiff, recovered judgment on the 12th of March, 1856. Both of the defendants were then in this state, but, at the end of three days after judgment, said Harriet left the state, and did not return to it until after the lapse of more than sixty days from the rendition of the judgment—after her husband had been committed to prison on the execution, and discharged as a poor debtor—and after the execution…
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