Dicken v. Shepherd
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County: This is an action of slander, brought' by the appellant against the appellee, on the 5th of October 1858. The inducement set out in the declaration is briefly as follows: That the defendant, on the 21st October 1852, sold to the plaintiff a certain piece of land with a mill thereon, for $5,000, for which the plaintiff paid $2,500 in cash, and confessed a judgment for $2,500, the balance of the purchase money, with a stay of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County: This is an action of slander, brought' by the appellant against the appellee, on the 5th of October 1858. The inducement set out in the declaration is briefly as follows: That the defendant, on the 21st October 1852, sold to the plaintiff a certain piece of land with a mill thereon, for $5,000, for which the plaintiff paid $2,500 in cash, and confessed a judgment for $2,500, the balance of the purchase money, with a stay of execution to the 1st October 1857; that the mill had been used by the defendant as a grist and merchant mill, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtCochraN, J.
This suit was brought by the appellant to recover damages for alleged slanderous words spoken of him by the appellee. Of the counts contained in the declaration, only the 2nd, 3rd and 14th are relied on, as material to the questions raised on this appeal. The case proceeded to trial upon issues joined on the pleas of not guilty, limitations, and the truth of the words declared on in justification; during the course of which, the appellant took five exceptions to the rejection of evidence, and one to the rejection of his prayers and the granting of three prayers offered by the appellee. In…
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