Case Name: EDDS v. WATERS
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1831-05
Citations: 8 F. Cas. 298
Docket Number: Case No. 4,275
Parties: EDDS v. WATERS.
Judges: Before CRANCH, Chief Judge, and THRUSTON and MORSELL, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 8
Pages: 298–298

Head Matter:
Case No. 4,275.
EDDS v. WATERS.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 170.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
May Term, 1831.
Before CRANCH, Chief Judge, and THRUSTON and MORSELL, Circuit Judges.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
CRANCH, Chief. Judge.
The defendant, having demurred generally to the whole declaration, consisting of a single count containing three distinct charges, if any one of them is actionable, the plaintiff must have judgment; for if the defendant wished to prevent the plaintiff from recovering damages for the words not actionable, he should have demurred to so much of the declaration as charges- him with speaking those words.
But having, by his demurrer, admitted that he spoke all the words charged in the declaration, and some of them being actionable, the plaintiff must have judgment for the-whole.