Young v. Cook
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions OF tort. The declaration in the first case was as follows: “ The plaintiff says that she has been for a long time, and now is, a resident of Wellfleet, in said county of Barnstable; that during said time she has been held in great respect by the inhabitants of said Wellfleet; that on or about March 12, 1886, certain workmen engaged in digging on a certain street or road in said Wellfleet, discovered protruding from a bank of earth on which they were digging at…
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Two actions OF tort. The declaration in the first case was as follows: “ The plaintiff says that she has been for a long time, and now is, a resident of Wellfleet, in said county of Barnstable; that during said time she has been held in great respect by the inhabitants of said Wellfleet; that on or about March 12, 1886, certain workmen engaged in digging on a certain street or road in said Wellfleet, discovered protruding from a bank of earth on which they were digging at the side of the road something which seemed to be the arm or leg of an infant; that thereupon, upon further digging, the…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The declarations set out that the defendant spoke of the plaintiffs respectively the words alleged as slanderous. They do not contain an allegation that the plaintiff Jerusha A. Young was intended by the words “Aunt Jerusha,” or “ Jerusha Young,” or was known or called by either or both these names, or that the plaintiff Eliza H. Higgins was known also as “ Eliza Higgins ” or “ Liza Higgins.” The declarations are not, on this account, demurrable. When the words are alleged to be spoken of the plaintiff, no innuendoes are necessary to apply them, and, although the names of both plaintiffs are…
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