Case ID: dc_1/html/0550-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Birch v. Simms.
    In slander, evidence of words spoken in tlie second person will not support an averment of words spoken in tlie third person.
    Slander. The declaration was “ he stole.” The evidence was “ you stole.”
   The Court,

upon the authority of Rutherford v. Moore, in Washington county, at December term, 1806, [ante, 388,] and the case of Willis v. M’Kenzie, in this county, July, 1808, (not reported) refused to suffer the evidence to go to the jury. Nonsuit.