Blackwell v. Landreth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Wythe county, rendered at its March term, 1893, in an action for defamation of character, wherein Julia Blackwell was plaintiff and Robert Landreth was defendant. The judgment being' unfavorable to the plaintiff, she brought the case here on error. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This case is as follows: The plaintiff in error was a young girl, the adopted daughter of J. R. Harkrader, sheriff of *749"Wythe county, living in his family. The defendant, Robert Landreth, was a citizen of Wythe county, and a candidate for the office of sheriff of Wythe county at the election then approaching for. the ensuing term. He circulated among the voters the statement that he had heard from his wife, who had it from a negro woman, that the said Julia had been delivered of a bastard child (had a baby), and it was laid to Harkrader or to his son-in-law, a young man living in his house,…
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