Case Name: John C. Shore v. Adam Smith
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1864-12
Citations: 15 Ohio St. 173
Docket Number: 
Parties: John C. Shore v. Adam Smith.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 15
Pages: 173–173

Head Matter:
John C. Shore v. Adam Smith.
Error to the superior court of Cincinnati.
Jackson Johnson, for plaintiff in error.
Warden &¡ McGaffey, and J. JS. Ugly, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
By the Court —
Held: A cause of action for slander, in charging the plaintiff with theft, may be united in the same petition with a cause of.action for a malicious prosecution for an alleged theft, both being for " injuries to character" within the meaning of clause three of section eighty, of the Code of Civil Procedure. (S. & C's Stat. 967-8). A man's reputation may be destroyed or injured as effectually by preferring malicious indictments or prosecutions against him, as by spoken or written words. 3 Blac. Comm. 135.
Judgment affirmed.