Hays v. Allen

This is an action of slander brought by Allen against Hays. The declaration contains the prefatory allegation, that the plaintiff was a postmaster at Port Royal, Morgan county, appointed and commissioned by the postmaster general of the United States, and as such had given bond and taken the *409oath of office, as required by law. The words alleged to have been spoken are embraced- in one count, and charge the plaintiff as postmaster, with the crime of taking a letter out of the post office at Port Royal, in which the defendant had enclosed a certain sum of money directed to a merchant in…