Watkins v. Lawson

Decided April 22, 1914

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1914-04-22

Appeal by defendant from Coolee, J., at Spring Term, 1913, of Stokes. Tbis is an action to recover damages for tbe speaking of certain slanderous words. The jury returned the following verdict : “1. Hid the defendant falsely speak of the plaintiff that she, meaning the plaintiff, had stole things from the stores around here, and were the words uttered in the hearing of other persons, as alleged in paragraph 2 of the complaint? Answer: ‘Yes.’ ■ “2.

Decided 1914-04-22

Pbb Oueiam.

¶1It is provided in the Rules of Practice in this Court, No. 34, that exceptions in the record by appellant, “in support of which no reason or argument is stated or authority cited, will be taken as abandoned by him,” and applying the rule, we must decline to consider the statement in the brief filed, that “the defendant has ten assignments of error, all of which he insists upon in this Court.”

¶2The only exception discussed is to the charge of his Honor that the plaintiff would be entitled to recover damages if she established either of the charges made in the complaint, and in this there is no error.

¶3The charges are distinct and separate, and the establishment of one in no way depended on the other.

¶4No error.