Henderson v. Fox
Supreme Court of Georgia
Charge of court. Pleadings. Justification. Practice. Slander. Privileged communications. Actions, Jury and jurors. New trial. Verdict. Before Judge Harden. City court of Savannah. November term. 1888. To the report contained in the decision the following grounds of the motion for a new trial are added, to be taken in connection therewith : Error in charging as follows : Fox brings an action against Henderson for damages.
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Charge of court. Pleadings. Justification. Practice. Slander. Privileged communications. Actions, Jury and jurors. New trial. Verdict. Before Judge Harden. City court of Savannah. November term. 1888. To the report contained in the decision the following grounds of the motion for a new trial are added, to be taken in connection therewith : Error in charging as follows : Fox brings an action against Henderson for damages. He brings it in three counts, alleging that Henderson has spoken falsely and maliciously against him certain words imputing to him a crime ; that Henderson had called him, on…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
This is the second appearance of the same case, the first being in 80 Ga. 479. At successive trials two verdicts, each for $1,500 damages, were found for Fox, the plaintiff below. From the first a new trial was granted by this court, for error in instructions to the jury. A second new trial was applied for by Henderson, *241and to the refusal of that application the present writ of error was brought. The declaration was in three counts. The first charged the speaking on the first of March, 1886, of these slanderous words : “He is a thief and ought to be in the…
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