Wischstadt v. Wischstadt
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Nicollet county, for words spoken in German on June 4, 1889, at the city of St. Peter, and being, in translation: “He is a scamp. He has stolen my hogs out of my stable.”
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Action brought in the district court for Nicollet county, for words spoken in German on June 4, 1889, at the city of St. Peter, and being, in translation: “He is a scamp. He has stolen my hogs out of my stable.” At the trial, before Weller, J., the plaintiff, to prove the speaking of the words charged, offered in evidence a complaint made by him before the city justice of the peace on June 4, 1889, against the defendant, for using these words in reference to him on that day: “Fred Wischstadt has stolen some hogs out of my barn;” also the warrant issued thereon, and the justice’s docket…
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
There was no error in admitting the complaint and warrant and defendant’s plea of guilty in the criminal proceeding instituted by plaintiff against the defendant. The admissibility of the papers rested entirely upon the plea of guilty. That was an admission that defendant spoke the words charged in the warrant, and, for the purpose of evidence in this action upon the issue as to speaking the words, stands as an admission of speaking them made in any other manner, entitled to greater weight because of the. deliberateness with which the plea is presumed to have been made. *360The slanderous charge…
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