Simmons v. Dickson
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth District, in an appeal from Harris County. Dickson sued J. S. Simmons, J. E. Boyd, F. B. Williams, and others, for slander and libel. There was a peremptory instruction to find for defendants, and verdict and judgment accordingly. Plaintiff appealed and the judgment, as to the defendants named, was reversed and remanded, 170 S. W., 834. They thereupon obtained writ of error.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth District, in an appeal from Harris County. Dickson sued J. S. Simmons, J. E. Boyd, F. B. Williams, and others, for slander and libel. There was a peremptory instruction to find for defendants, and verdict and judgment accordingly. Plaintiff appealed and the judgment, as to the defendants named, was reversed and remanded, 170 S. W., 834. They thereupon obtained writ of error. The case was, by the Supreme Court, referred to the Commission of Appeals, Section B, and by them, in an opinion by McClendon, J., it was recommended that the judgment of…
1Opinion of the Court
W.L. Dickson, as plaintiff, brought this suit against J.S. Simmons, J.E. Boyd, F.B. Williams, and others to recover damages for certain alleged libelous and slanderous publications and utterances on the part of defendants. The trial court peremptorily instructed the jury to return a verdict in favor of defendants. This judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals, Eighth District, as to all defendants except the three named above and as to those three reversed and remanded the case.170 S.W. 834.
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