Bowen v. Hall
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action on the case for speaking slanderous words, imputing to the plaintiff the crime of perjury. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and also pleaded four several pleas in justification, setting forth with particularity instances in which he alleged the plaintiff had, upon the trial of certain issues, committed perjury. To the pleas in justification the plaintiff replied, admitting the trials of the issues alleged, but dc injuria absque residuo causa &c.
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This was an action on the case for speaking slanderous words, imputing to the plaintiff the crime of perjury. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and also pleaded four several pleas in justification, setting forth with particularity instances in which he alleged the plaintiff had, upon the trial of certain issues, committed perjury. To the pleas in justification the plaintiff replied, admitting the trials of the issues alleged, but dc injuria absque residuo causa &c. Trial by jury, September Term, 1845, — Williams, Ch. J., presiding. On trial, after evidence had been given under the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Davis, J.
The several counts in the plaintiff’s declaration all charge, that the defendant, on two different days in September, 1843, in words addressed to, and spoken of, the plaintiff, accused him in general terms of the crime of perjury, being a perjured rascal, &c. The defendant, at the September Term, 1844, pleaded only the general issue, and upon trial a verdict passed for the plaintiff. On review, the defendant, at the April Term, 1845, by leave of the court, filed four special pleas in bar, all averring that the plaintiff, on the trial of…
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