Chaddock v. Briggs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of the case for slander, in which the plaintiff declares, “that, whereas he is a good and faithful. citizen of this Commonwealth, and for more than eight years now last past has been, and now is, a minister and preacher of the gospel, legally settled and ordained over the congregational church and society in Hanover, and was always of good reputation and character for temperance and sobriety among, &c., and is, and ever has been, free from the odious and…
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This was an action of the case for slander, in which the plaintiff declares, “that, whereas he is a good and faithful. citizen of this Commonwealth, and for more than eight years now last past has been, and now is, a minister and preacher of the gospel, legally settled and ordained over the congregational church and society in Hanover, and was always of good reputation and character for temperance and sobriety among, &c., and is, and ever has been, free from the odious and criminal offence of drunkenness ; nevertheless, the said Jllden, not being ignorant of the premises, but maliciously and…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The plaintiff in this action is described as a minister and preacher of the gospel, legally settled and ordained over the church and religious society of the congregational denomination in the town of Hanover ; and the defendant is charged with having falsely and maliciously uttered * and published of him certain words, which, with the proper innuendoes, have the effect of a direct charge upon the plaintiff of having been drunk ; and this charge was made in terms which exclude the possibility of a construction consistent with the innocence of the plaintiff, being accompanied with terms of…
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