Case ID: mich_53/html/0496-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John W. Gibbs v. Judge of the Superior Court of Detroit.
    
      Slander — Nonsuit—Affidavits to hold to bail — Bill of particulars, m
    
    Nonsuit cannot be ordered for failure to file a bill of particulars in an action for slander if the action was begun by affidavits to hold to bail, in which the facts were fully set out; no more can be done than to limit the plaintiff to tlie cases set out in the affidavits.
    Mandamus.
    Applied for and granted
    April 29.
    
      
      Stewart & Galloway and Jas. H. Pound for relator.
    
      John D. Conely for respondent.
   Per curiam.

Action for slander. The defendant was held to bail on two affidavits, which set out conversations with the affiants, in which the defendants had made grossly slanderous charges against the plaintiff. The declaration which was filed in the case contained numerous counts charging the defendant with having uttered the slanderous words in the presence and hearing of divers persons, naming none of them. The defendant pleaded to the declaration, and afterwards moved for an order that the defendant file a statement of the particulars of the alleged slander, and the court made the order. The plaintiff not complying therewith, the court ordered judgment of nonsuit.

We think this order should not have been made. Particulars were given in the two affidavits with abundant fullness, and to the extent of the conversations there given, at least, the action should have proceeded. The court should not have gone beyond limiting the plaintiff to the cases set out in the two affidavits in case he failed to give further particulars.

Writ ordered, but without costs.