Monier v. Fontenot

LE BLANC, Judge.

The plaintiff, Dorcenus Monier, appeals from a judgment in the lower court which dismissed his suit on - an exception of no cause of action.

The demand is one for damages against the defendant, Jean Pierre (J.P.) Fonte-not, arising out of an alleged libel and slander. The libel is claimed to be based on an affidavit made before a justice of the peace of the Fifth police jury ward of the parish of Evangeline, in which the defendant charged plaintiff and one Jercy Chapman with a conspiracy to burn his dwelling house. The slander is alleged to have been uttered on two different…