Farr v. Rasco
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Oakland Circuit. The action was for slander. In the declaration the defendant was in substance charged with having published that the plaintiff, who is a married man, was the father of a negro or colored child, and had committed adultery. Plea, the general issue.
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Error to Oakland Circuit. The action was for slander. In the declaration the defendant was in substance charged with having published that the plaintiff, who is a married man, was the father of a negro or colored child, and had committed adultery. Plea, the general issue. On the trial, the plaintiff introduced testimony to prove the uttering and publication by the defendant of the words as alleged against him in the declaration, and that the plaintiff resided in Farmington, some fifteen miles distant from Commerce, in said county, where the defendant resided. The plaintiff introduced a…
1Opinion of the Court
Manning J.:
It would be useless to attempt to reconcile the numerous conflicting cases cited and commented on by counsel *356on the argument. In such circumstances, the court must be governed in the conclusion it may |come to more by legal principles than by reported cases, which frequently are but evidence of the application of such principles to a particular state of facts. It sometimes happens that evidence which is admissible for one purpose is wholly inadmissible for another and different purpose. In such cases to reject the evidence entirely, might work as great injury to the party offering…
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