The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
HARRlS0N.R RAMSAY SUIT
FAILS TO REACH JURORS
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disproportionate to the occasion. the
court said, might raise an Inference
of malice. The communication would
not be privileged If 1t went beyond the
exigency of the occasion and was un-
necessarily defamatory to the plain
tiff. or was moro extensively published
than necessary. The language was to
be construed in the ordinary and pop
ular sense by which 1t would be un-
derstood by the world.
1t was after the mid day recess that
counsel began arguing the case. IT.
wing II. Campbell opened for the plain
tiff. The larger part of his time was
given to an explanation Of the In
structions, although he went into the
evidence OF the witnesses. Witnesses
for the defense. said Mr.. Campbell.
were contradictory and confused,
while those of the plaintin, particu-
larry Mr.. Harrison and his wife, were
frank and mistaken. Mrs Ramsay, he
said. was actuated on the stand by
an unfortunate spirit. while his client
and wife were magnanlmous to the
extreme.
Mr.. Campbell closed with an appeal
to the jury to see that this attempt
OF an ALLEN" resident to insult
native should be stopped. He spoke
for sixty-seven minutes.
To l.. NJ. Nance. Commemorative at
torney Of Charles City County. was
given the task of opening for the de-
Tense. Mr.. Nance was at home before
the Jury. and made a strong and viBor-
GUS appeal. He spoke for only thirty
minutes. He said In part:
II never thought and you never
thought that we would live to sec the
day when a county boating that 1t
States would SEQ man sue woman
for damages under the antidueling act.
Mr.. Harrison tells you that he has not
suffered any damage at the hands OF
the defendant, and yet ne wants you
to give him her money. He has not
been damaged. and to give a verdict
to punish this woman would be giving
him something for nothing. If she
is to be punished. tho money should
go into the Golfers of tho Common
wealth, and not Into the pockets OF
Hugh Harrison.
IF Mrs. Harrison Is rich woman,
there is no place In America that she
could be any lonelier than she Is here
in Charles City County. BY herself
in that big house. with a nagglnm man
ant for her. is 1t unnatural that she
turned and fought back with the only
weapon left her, It IS woman's
privilege to use her tongue or pen. as
the case-may be.
one shred of evidence to briag In YER;
dict against her, do SO. to the full
amount, and L will say Amen to it,
BYRD HURLS BITTER
SHAFTS OF SARCASM
Richard Evelyn Byrd WINS the second
speaker for the defense. BY turn he
was sarcastic and eloquent. His bitter
| shafts of sarcasm were hurled not only
but at the gentry OF Charles City
sacred social circle" His talk in part
follows:
80 Isn't it a most extraordinary thing
that he has suffered no damage, either
to his property or to his reputntion9. A
son of this defendant. is seeking to en-.
rich rh himself non, through Jug his hurt pride
Il 70 punish the defendant or is It to
swell his fee? When hear that kind
ways my thought that he is seeking to
line his own pockets.
II say If the defendant is TO be pun
| ished let the Commonwealth 90 it..
! of Hugh Harrison. There is a libel law
xo,, he Soma Wants to enrich himself Are
| Ramsay's pockets to give to this Wig
orous young man?
is between. this scion of honorable gem
srations of men and this alien woman.
That is the milk in the cocoanut. When
| did II become n crime to be Il stranger
in Charles n';s City County?
sible for this suit. and, thinklng SO,
l feel better towards him. He told
you about his lawyer brother-In-law. A
lawyer is dangerous. especially one
without practice. Hugh had too many
advisers, and his letters to Mrs. Ram
say were evidently dictated by this
brother-inlaw. and think he repre-
sents tho lawyer and the hatred and
| malice of the community. Ne has been
made the goat by the others.
do you know of any other instance
where vigorous young man has sued