Drummond v. Leslie

This was an, action of slander brought by Leslie against Drummond.

The first count of the declaration, after the usual inducement of the plaintiff’s good character, states that before, &c., the plaintiff had owed the defendant for certain quarters’ rent of a house; that the plaintiff had paid the same, and taken receipts from the defendant for the several amounts, (describ*454ing the receipts particularly;) and that the plaintiff had used, uttered, and published, the receipts against the defendant as true and as evidence of said payments; yet the defendant well knowing, &c., and contriving and…