Jones v. Edwards
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to to tbe Circuit Court of Lauderdale County. Hon. J. S. Hamm, Judge. A. C. Edwards, who bad leased land, for the year 1876, to C. W. Jones for three bales of cotton, having received only two bales, made certain statements, in consequence of which Jones sued him for slander. The material allegations of the declaration appear in the opinion of the court.
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Error to to tbe Circuit Court of Lauderdale County. Hon. J. S. Hamm, Judge. A. C. Edwards, who bad leased land, for the year 1876, to C. W. Jones for three bales of cotton, having received only two bales, made certain statements, in consequence of which Jones sued him for slander. The material allegations of the declaration appear in the opinion of the court. Edwards pleaded not guilty, with a notice that he would show that Jones had delivered the third bale of cotton at Young’s gin house, and subsequently taking it away without his knowledge, had sold it and used the money; and, at the…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, J.
The slanderous words averred in the declaration were that the defendant had said, of and concerning the plaintiff, that “he (meaning the plaintiff) had stolen, or might as well have stolen, said bale of cotton,” and further that “ he (meaning the plaintiff) was a d-d rascal.” The court properly excluded evidence under this count, that the defendant had said, that the plaintiff “ was a poor scamp, that he had taken his rent cotton and carried it off and sold it without leave, and that when the grand jury met he would show him (the plaintiff) whose cotton it was.” There was a fatal variance…
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