Case Name: Fogg agt Leverett
Court: Suffolk County Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1676-04-25
Citations: 2 Rec. Co. Ct. 689
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fogg agt Leverett
Judges: 
Reporter: Records of the Suffolk county court, 1671-1680
Volume: 2
Pages: 689–689

Head Matter:
Fogg agt Leverett

Opinion:
Ezekiel Fogg plaint. agt Hudson Leverett Defendt in an action of defamation for slandering & defaming the name of the sd Fogg, by wrongfully & unjustly chargeing him the saide Fogg to bee a traytor to the Country & that hee would clap the sd Fogg a close prison1 with many other threatning words & Language to the great defamation of the sd Fogg as will appeare by sufficient evidence & is in the valuation of credit & Forreign repute to the plaints damage Five hundred pounds as abouesd wth all other due damages according to attachmt dat. April: 7° 1676. . . . The Jury . . . founde for the Defendt costs of Court being twelve Shillings & two pence.
Execucion issued May: 17° 1676.