Charles W. Blakeslee & Sons v. Carroll
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for slander, brought to the Superior Court in Hew Haven County and tried to the jury before George W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for tlie plaintiff's for §500 damages, aud appeal by the defendant for alleged errors of the court in excluding evidence and in the charge to the jury.
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Action to recover damages for slander, brought to the Superior Court in Hew Haven County and tried to the jury before George W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for tlie plaintiff's for §500 damages, aud appeal by the defendant for alleged errors of the court in excluding evidence and in the charge to the jury. The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs were partners in business and engaged in furnishing materials and building roads, sewers, pavements and general stone structures in New Haven and other places; that the defendant was a sewer contractor in said city, and on the 27th of July,…
1Opinion of the CourtTokrance, J.
This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in an action of slander. The complaint sets out the alleged slanderous words in full, and alleges in substance, that they charge or impute a crime and are false and malicious.
The defendant in his answer, after admitting that he uttered the words set out in the complaint, but denying that they had the meaning therein ascribed to them, alleged in substance, first, that they were true and not false and malicious ; second, that “ said words were spoken by the defendant as a witness testifying under oath before a committee of the board of aldermen…
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