Court Opinion

ID: 8054758
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:31:44.117525+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:49.243240
License: Public Domain

By the Court.
— This judgment cannot be sustained. It is abundantly evident from the record, that the words charged in the three first counts were spoken in a Court of law, in the progress of a trial, and in a course of justice; that the language was uncivil, and merited the censure of the justice, before whom the testimony was given, is very clear; but they are not actionable; nothing is more common than for a party to say in his defence, that the evidence given against him is not true, and that he can prove it. Tlie three first counts, not containing a cause of action, and the testimony failing on the fourth count, there is nothing to support the judgment of the Common Pleas.
Judgment reversed.