Woodson v. Scott

1. This is an action of slander. The jury found for the plaintiff, and assessed his damages at five hundred dollars.

*273The only point presented for our consideration is the amount of damages. The defendant alleges the damages' to be excessive.

The record shows the words to have been spoken in an angry quarrel between plaintiff and defendant, when each one was using slanderous and abusive words to and about the other.

In all such cases, the juries of the country are the most appropriate judges of the amount of injury sustained; and to them is properly assigned the authority and right to assess the…