Pavlovski v. Thornton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action. Married woman. Slander. Damages. Before Judge Maddox. Dloyd superior court. September term, 1891. Mrs. Thornton sued Pavlovski for damages, alleging that he falsely and maliciously said of and concerning her, “ She is a whoring bitch,” and “ She is no lady,” meaning thereby that she was a prostitute ; also, “ She is no better than Mollie Darling,” a woman of notoriously lewd character and the keeper of a lewd house in the city of Nome.
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Action. Married woman. Slander. Damages. Before Judge Maddox. Dloyd superior court. September term, 1891. Mrs. Thornton sued Pavlovski for damages, alleging that he falsely and maliciously said of and concerning her, “ She is a whoring bitch,” and “ She is no lady,” meaning thereby that she was a prostitute ; also, “ She is no better than Mollie Darling,” a woman of notoriously lewd character and the keeper of a lewd house in the city of Nome. Also, that she was no lady, that he went to show her a room which she desired to rent, that when thtey went into the room she shut the door, that there…
1Opinion of the Court
*829 Judgment affirmed,.
Tbe verdict is contrary to law and evidence. It being clearlymade to appear that tbe slanderous words, if spoken by tbe defendant, were spoken to tbe plaintiff or to the defendant’s wife, and if spoken to the plaintiff, in a quarrel between her and the defendant, they were not so spoken and said of her as to constitute slander, and therefore they were not so spoken as to be the basis of an action for slander; and if they were spoken to the wife of the defendant, they were privileged. The words spoken of the plaintiff were not actionable, being spoken to the plaintiff at…
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