Moore v. Maxey
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action for slander. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. W. W. Duncan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shirley
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee recovered in a suit for slander. The declaration contained one count in which it was charged that appellant in the presence and hearing of others had said of appellee “I caught him stealing. I will tell anybody so.” “I caught him stealing my coal.” There was a plea of the general issue and a special plea in which by way of justification it was averred that in weighing coal appellee, as weighman for a coal company, used false scales that would weigh light and by that means feloniously stole coal of appellant, who by a contract with the…
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