Parker v. McQueen

Chief Justice. Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.-

Tins was an action for slander in charging the plaintiff with having stolen a hog. Besides the general issue, the defendant filed a special plea stating in substance, ■“that a third person, a neighbor., had sent for and informed him that plaintiff had stolen her hog and had it in his pen; that at her request he went with her to get the hog, and attempted to satisfy the plaintiff, by witnesses, that the said hog, then in his pen, belonged to said neighbor, áre., but he then refused to surrender it, but after-wards turned it .put of the…