Nabors v. Mathis
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Alcorn county. Hon. Claude Clayton, Judge. Suit by S. M. Nabors aeainst M. C. Mathis. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Alcorn county. Hon. Claude Clayton, Judge. Suit by S. M. Nabors aeainst M. C. Mathis. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellant contends that the court below erred in granting the third and fifth instructions for appellees for two reasons, towit: first, these instructions do not correctly state the law as applicable to the case at bar; and, second, because these two instructions are in direct conflict with the first, second, third, fourth, and eighth instructions given for appellant, and…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, P. J.
Appellant began this suit in the circuit court of Alcorn county, under section 10, Code 1906, “Actionable Words.” The evidence in support of the averments of the declaration was conflicting. Plaintiff proved by several witnesses that defendant said in the presence ■of witnesses that he could prove that plaintiff, while acting as a member of the legislature, had — “voted to kill our home Agricultural School at Kossuth, and voted -and did all he could to get a fifty thousand dollar appropriation for a negro school in the Delta. I can’t prove this, gentlemen, but it is my honest opinion, and the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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