Legal Opinion
Pettibone v. Simpson
New York Supreme Court
Decided January 7, 1873PublishedCited by 3 opinions
APPEAL by the plaintiff from a judgment of non-suit, rendered at the Steuben county circuit.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Talcott, J.
This is an action for slander, founded upon certain words charging the plaintiff, an unmarried female, with having had illicit intercourse with a certain individual. The words were spoken by Antoinette Simpson, one of the defendants, and the wife of the other, in the summer of 1870. The plaintiff was nonsuited, at the circuit.
That the words are not actionable per se is perfectly well settled. (Terwilliger v. Wands, 17 N. Y. 54. Wilson v. Goit, Id. 442.)
The only question is whether there were any special damages in the case, upon which the, action can be maintained.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Terwilliger v. . WandsNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Fagan v. New York Evening Journal Publishing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Casale v. CalderoneAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1906