Barber v. Parsons

These are three actions of slander brought by the same plaintiff against three different defendants for the same or similar defamatory words ; and, by agreement of parties, they were referred to the same referee, who heard them together on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of December, 1886, and made an award in each case in favor of the defendant, on which judgment was entered. A certificate of witnesses has been filed in each case, from which it appears that the same twenty-seven witnesses for the defendants attended in each case the same number of days, and travelled the same number of miles, with…