Hansbrough v. Stinnett
Supreme Court of Virginia
In an action for slander in the Circuit court of Botetourt county,' in which Bichard Stinnett was plaintiff and Hiram Hansbrough and Ann his wife, were defendants, the cause came on for trial at the April term 1872 of the court, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff’, and assessed his damages at five hundred dollars. The defendants thereupon moved the court to grant them a new trial; but the court overruled the motion.
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In an action for slander in the Circuit court of Botetourt county,' in which Bichard Stinnett was plaintiff and Hiram Hansbrough and Ann his wife, were defendants, the cause came on for trial at the April term 1872 of the court, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff’, and assessed his damages at five hundred dollars. The defendants thereupon moved the court to grant them a new trial; but the court overruled the motion. And the plaintiff' by his attorney then in open court released five dollars, parcel of the damages found by the verdict of the jury; and the court rendered a judgment…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.
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Upon a motion to dismiss the supersedeas awarded in this cause, for the want of jurisdiction, the judgment of the court below, as is alleged, being for a less sum than $500.
This day came again the parties by their attorney, and the court is of opinion that the release given by the attorney of the plaintiff, in the court below, of five dollars of the damages, amounting to five hundred dollars found by the verdict of the jury, was given for the purpose of depriving this court of appellate jurisdiction in this case ; that the said release for the said…
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