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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SMITH et v. BUCK.
    Ohio Supreme Court.
    No. 20867.
    Decided June 13, 1928.
    Error to Huron Appeals.
    Judgment affirmed.
    715. LIBEL AND SLANDER — 915 Personal Injury.
    1. Words “personal injury” denote injury either to physical body or to reputation or both.
    2. Words “personal injury” by “wrongful act” comprehend injury by libel or slander.
   ROBINSON, J.

1. The words “personal injury” as defined by lexicographers, jurists and text writers, and by common acceptance, denote an injury either to the physical body of a person or to the reputation of a person or to both.

2. The words “personal injury” by “wrongful act,” of Section 11819, General Code, comprehend, among other injuries to the person, injury by libel or slander.

(Marshall, CJ., Day, Allen, Kinkade, Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur.)