Case Name: Orme vs. Lodge
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1810-06
Citations: 3 H. & J. 83
Docket Number: 
Parties: Orme vs. Lodge.
Judges: The cause was argued beFore Chase, Ch. J. Buchanan, Gantt, and Earle, J. by
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the General Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland, form 1800 ... [to 1826]
Volume: 3
Pages: 83–84

Head Matter:
Orme vs. Lodge.
Error to. Montgomery County Court. An action of slander was. brought by the plaintiff in error, to which the defendant in error put in the plea of justification short, tinder an agreement that it- should be considered as if a good and valid plea of justification had been put in at length in a formal and legal manner, and so plead as the law required a legal justification in such a case to be pleaded, and the issue regularly joined thereon. At the trial, the court having refused to direct the jury on the plaintiff’s prayer, (but which it is not necessary to state here,) he excepted; and the verdict and judgment being against him, he brought the present writ of error.
In an action of slander for words spoken, the plea oí justification was put in short, tvith an agreement of the counsel (hat it should be considered as if a good and valid plea of ju&< ideation had been put in at length in a formal and legal manner. Ihe court of ap-* peah, on the record . comimr be* icre them by u. writ of error .sued out by the phuntí j?.0 that the plea was not sufHciently pleaded» and upon that ground» reversed the judgment
The cause was argued beFore Chase, Ch. J. Buchanan, Gantt, and Earle, J. by
Hey, for the Plaintiff in error;
and by
Taney, for the Defendant in error.

Opinion:
Chase, Ch. J.
The plea of justification is not sufficiently pleaded, (being put in short,) and upon that ground the court reverse the judgment.
judgment reversed.