Laing v. Nelson
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Doane, J. See opinion for a statement of the case. The court erred in permitting the plaintiff Nelson to testify to the falsity of the slanderous charges alleged to have been made concerning him by the defendant Laing. (Cooley, Torts, p. 207; Greenwood v. Cobbey, 26 Neb., 449; Briggs v. Garrett, 111 Pa.
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Error from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Doane, J. See opinion for a statement of the case. The court erred in permitting the plaintiff Nelson to testify to the falsity of the slanderous charges alleged to have been made concerning him by the defendant Laing. (Cooley, Torts, p. 207; Greenwood v. Cobbey, 26 Neb., 449; Briggs v. Garrett, 111 Pa. St., 414; State v. Batch, 3 Kan., 465; Beariclc v. Wilcox, 81 111., 77; Pennington v. Meeks, 46 Mo., 217; IAck v. Owen, Ml Cal., 252; Bergmannv. Jones, 94 N. Y., 51; Bacon v. Michigan C. R. Co., 66 Mich., 166; Grace v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Irvine, O.
The defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error for slander. The language charged, omitting the innuendoes,, is as follows: “He (Nelson) is an unworthy, dishonest man, and a villain. He is a criminal. He is a forger, a perjurer, and an outlaw. He is a dishonest scoundrel. He has committed crimes which should put him in the penitentiary, and he has only narrowly escaped the peni-, tentiary several times. I have saved him from going to the penitentiary, when the officers were at the door of his house to arrest him, by paying a certain amount of money to the party causing the…
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