Taylor v. Kneeland

This is an action of slander brought by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, for slanderous words aEeged to have been spoken by the defendant below in relation to the conduct and behavior of the plaintiff below, in the discharge and exercise of his office of postmaster. The declaration contains the common inducement, without averring any extrinsic matter or circumstances, showing the actionable quality of the words, except averring that the plain tiff was postmaster at Farming-ton, &c. It then alleges that the “said Orestes Taylor, well knowing the premises, and contriying,…