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1 Lock. Rev. Cas. 393

Backus v. Richardson

Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · decided 1799-07-01

<p> Slander; Defective Count, and Damages assessed generally. </p>

Decided 1799-07-01

¶1Action for slander, and demurrer to the whole declaration containing several counts for different words, some actionable and others not. The plaintiff’s damages were assessed generally, and the Court of Errors, on writ of error, held, as in Cheeiham and Tillotson, that the damages must be considered as applying to the whole declaration, and the judgment of the Supreme Court sustaining the verdict, under those circumstances, was accordingly reversed.

¶2It seems to have been held by the Court of Errors in *394' this case, that to say of a merchant, “ You keep false books, and I can prove it,” is actionable.-

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