Terry v. Fellows

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing his suit on the peremptory exception that his petition discloses no cause of action. He claims $50,000 for damages sustained by him on account of a slander and libel uttered and published by ithe defendants.

The petition alleges that the defendant, Follows, in giving evidence before a committee of Congress, which was. appointed to investigate the causes of the unhappy disturbance in this city on the thirtieth July, 1866, did falsely and maliciously declare that plaintiff, “ J. Randall Terry, took part in the late rebellion against the United States, *376…