Keene v. Relf
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FIIOM TIXE COURT OF THE FIRST- JUDICIAL DISTRICT-. This is an action for slander. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant instituted a suit some time ago against him for a libel, which he delayed for a great while, and finally took a non-suit.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FIIOM TIXE COURT OF THE FIRST- JUDICIAL DISTRICT-. This is an action for slander. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant instituted a suit some time ago against him for a libel, which he delayed for a great while, and finally took a non-suit. He expressly charges that the defendant prosecuted him through malice, because he had charged said defendant, while acting in his professional capacity as lawyer, and in which he was personally interested in a matter, in the Probate Court of New-Orleans, concerning Daniel Clark’s succession, with the suppression and destruction of…
1Opinion of the CourtCarleton, J.
The plaintiff sets out his case at considerable length, and in substance alleges, that while acting in his capacity, as counsellor at law and curator of the estate of the late Daniel Clark, he had exposed the flagrant abuses and malversations practised by the defendant, as one of the executors of said estate, under a pretended will, which had been revoked by the testator, who had made another and appointed other-executors, from his knowledge of the defendant’s unworthiness of the trust; that this last will had mysteriously disappeared when said defendant was present and had charge *307of the…
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