Pegram v. . Stoltz
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Slander— Damages. Civil Actios, tried at Pall Term, 1876, of Forsythe Superior Court, before Kerr, J. ' This was an actiou of Slander to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff’s character and the material -facts are as follows; The defendant on the 4th day of August, 1870, said of the plaintiff’. “He is a perjured man.
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Slander— Damages. Civil Actios, tried at Pall Term, 1876, of Forsythe Superior Court, before Kerr, J. ' This was an actiou of Slander to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff’s character and the material -facts are as follows; The defendant on the 4th day of August, 1870, said of the plaintiff’. “He is a perjured man. He went to Davidson County and swore before Ihe Board of Registrars of said County that he was a citizen of Davidson County when he knew that he was a citizen of Forsythe.” The plaintiff was advised by said Board that he had a right to register in Davidson although he…
1Opinion of the CourtFaiRCUOth, J.
(After stating the facts as above.) The State being in an anomalous condition, the above recited Act was passed to meet the particular emergency then existing and was so intended as appears from, its preamble. It was-made applicable by its terms only to those States lately in rebellion and was therefore a local Act and- not a general law of the United States. It provided the manner an d means by which it was to be executed, by giving the Military Offi.cer in command of the District authority to punish all' criminals and disturbers of thé public peace, &c. by establishing local civil tribunals…
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