Miller v. Nuckolls
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; Frederick D. Fulkerson; Judge; statement by the court. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of Rhoda Nuckolls against J. T. Miller for the sum of $2,000, in an action for slander and libel. The complaint contained two causes of action.
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Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; Frederick D. Fulkerson; Judge; statement by the court. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of Rhoda Nuckolls against J. T. Miller for the sum of $2,000, in an action for slander and libel. The complaint contained two causes of action. The first alleged, among other matters, that the plaintiff was a single and unmarried woman, and that the defendant maliciously, intending to injure her good name and reputation in the community, did utter and publish of and concerning her certain false, defamatory and scandalous matter, towit: “There has been a…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of Rhoda Nuckolls against J. T. Miller for $2,000 for slander and libel. Several grounds are urged in the brief of the appellant why the judgment should be reversed, and which we shall, now notice.
Fir-st, as to certain remarks made by the presiding judge during the progress of the trial, and as to his rulings in admitting evidence offered by the plaintiff and excluding evidence offered by the defendant, it is sufficient to say that these objections, are not sufficiently set forth in the motion for new trial, and…
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