Bridgers v. . Bridgers
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action, tried before Cloud, J., at the January (special) Term, 1873, of Northampton Superior Court. Plaintiff brought this suit to recover damages for slanderous words spoken by defendant of and concerning the’plaintiff, charging him with having sworn to a lie in a certain trial before a Justice of the Peace.
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Civil action, tried before Cloud, J., at the January (special) Term, 1873, of Northampton Superior Court. Plaintiff brought this suit to recover damages for slanderous words spoken by defendant of and concerning the’plaintiff, charging him with having sworn to a lie in a certain trial before a Justice of the Peace. On the part of the plaintiff one Bridgers Odom was introduced as a witness, who proved that he was present at the-trial of a warrant had before one Jesse Flythe, a Justice of the Peace, in which the defendant was a party, and the plaintiff here was sworn as a witness, and in…
1Opinion of the CourtReade, J.
This was an action for slanderous words. The-defendant had charged the plaintiff with “ swearing to a lie ” in a trial before a Justice of the Peace, in which plaintiff had been examined as a witness.
In order to prove that the Justice had jurisdiction, the plaintiff introduced the Justice and asked him the question: “Did you have jurisdiction of the subject matter-which you were trying ? ”
This was objected to by the defendant, and ruled out by? his Honor. Whether the question was proper, is the only point in the case.
The plaintiffs’ counsel in his brief says: “ Whether a -Court has…
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