¶1 When this cause was here before, 109 N. C., 278, the Court had occasion to discuss in that and its cognate case, Ramsey v. Cheek, Ibid., 270, the law applicable to this action, which is brought for libel on a state of facts constituting a case of qualified privilege. The principles there laid down seem to have been applied with care by his Honor in the subsequent trial below. The exceptions are numerous and have been argued with much earnestness. On a careful and full examination, however, there appears to have been no material error committed, and we think substantial justice has been done. No good can be served by going over again the legal principles discussed in the former opinion. Probably no better case than this can be found in which to conform to the legislative desire as expressed in the recent act of the General Assembly (ch. 379, Acts 1893), that the Court shall not write out its reasons at length unless necessary, but shall in all such cases simply announce its decision. “ Upon an inspection of the whole record” (The Code, §957) the judgment below is Affirmed.
112 N.C. 838
17 S.E 533
Bradsher v. . Cheek
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided February 5, 1893
Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1893-02-05
Civil action for libel, tried before Bryan, J., and a jury, at January Term, 1893, of Durham Superior Court, in consequence of the grant of a new trial made by this Court on the former appeal (reported in 109 N. C., 278). On the second trial there were numerous exceptions to the admission and rejection of testimony, to the charge of his Honor, refusal of instructions, etc., covering thirty-eight pages of printed matter.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1949
2 state decisions
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1893-02-05
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