Case ID: ohio-st_15/html/0173-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court —", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John C. Shore v. Adam Smith.
    Error to the superior court of Cincinnati.
    
      Jackson Johnson, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Warden &¡ McGaffey, and J. JS. Ugly, for defendant in error.
   By the Court —

Held: A cause of action for slander, in charging the plaintiff with theft, may be united in the same petition with a cause of.action for a malicious prosecution for an alleged theft, both being for “ injuries to character” within the meaning of clause three of section eighty, of the Code of Civil Procedure. (S. & C’s Stat. 967-8). A man’s reputation may be destroyed or injured as effectually by preferring malicious indictments or prosecutions against him, as by spoken or written words. 3 Blac. Comm. 135.

Judgment affirmed.