Case ID: unrep-tenn-cas_1/html/0152-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Weight, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harrison v. Burem.
    
      PldSADIHG-. — Malicious Prosecution. Declaration, when demurra-ble.
    
    1. A declaration in an action for malicious prosecution, containing no averment that the previous suit is at an end, or that it was prosecuted maliciously and without probable cause, is bad.
    2. The Same. Slander. A declaration in an action for slander which does not impute the speaking of any words, is had.
   Weight, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court:

The declaration in this cause cannot be sustained as an action for the prosecution of a malicious suit — because it contains no averment that the suit is at an end, or that it was prosecuted maliciously and without probable cause. Nor can it be maintained as an action for tbe slander of the plaintiff’s title. It imputes the speaking of no words to defendant: and is in other respects, wanting in the averments necessary for such an action. And we have been unable to find authority to sustain it on any other ground.

Judgment affirmed.