Williams v. Hill
New York Supreme Court
This was an action of slander, tried at the New-York circuit in May, 1835, before the Hon. Ogden Edwards, one of the 'circuit judges. The plaintiff is an unmarried female. The charge against her was that she had criminal connection with a person of the other sex.
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This was an action of slander, tried at the New-York circuit in May, 1835, before the Hon. Ogden Edwards, one of the 'circuit judges. The plaintiff is an unmarried female. The charge against her was that she had criminal connection with a person of the other sex. She alleged as special damage, that certain individuals, named in the declaration, refused to hold intercourse and discourse with her, and to receive her into their houses, as before the speaking of the slanderous words they had been accustomed to do. On the trial, an uncle of the plaintiff testified that the plaintiff had been in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cowen, J.
The words were proved importing direct criminal connection between the plaintiff and a man who visited her in the character of a suitor. The plaintiff’s connections forbade her visits to their houses ; she appears to have been thus ejected from the house of her uncle, John Williams, while there on a visit, by reason of the report, not to mention other like instances. Moore v. Meagher, 1 Taunt. 39, in the exchequer chamber, is in point. The very decision was that the plaintiff being cut off from the hospitality of her friends, is such legal damage as will sustain an…
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