Spotorno v. Fourichon
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Houston, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Penner, J.
This is an action for slander by falsely and maliciously asserting and circulating the report that plaintiff was a negro. Under *424our laws slander is a quasi offense, actionable under the broad provisions of our Code, which declares: “Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it.”
Our courts are not bound by the technical distinctions of the common law as to words actionable perse, and not actionable perse, and allowing for the latter only actual pecuniary damage specially pioved.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Miller v. HolsteinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1840
3Cited by19 opinions
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- Pattison v. Gulf Bag Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
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