Proctor v. Pointer
Supreme Court of Georgia
Slander. Before Judge EL'odnett. City court of Carrollton. September 23, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
This was an action of slander. The plaintiff obtained a verdict, which the court refused to set aside on motion; and this is the complaint before this court.
1. The court allowed a witness, to testify that she understood the defendant to mean by the words spoken in her presence that the plaintiff had been guilty of fornication, and charged the jury on this subject as follows: .“Witnesses may give their understand*135ing of what was meant by words spoken, when the words themselves are ambiguous or do not clearly indicate what the person using them meant by the words.” Testimony of this character is…
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