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Pollard Vs. Lyon

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1875

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  1. U.S. 225 (1875) U.S. Supreme Court Pollard v. Lyon
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  2. U.S. 225 (1875) Pollard v. Lyon
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  3. and published which would not be actionable if merely spoken, without averring and proving special damage. Clement v. Chivis
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  4. McClurg v. Ross
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  5. Ogden v. Turner
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  6. Somewhat different phraseology is employed by the court in the next case to which reference will be made. Onslow v. Horne
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  7. otherwise they are not actionable. Holt v. Scholefield
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  8. words which do not impute a crime, however expressed, can ever be made actionable by a colloquium or innuendo. Colman v. Godwin
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  9. Woolnoth v. Meadows
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  10. ever since been followed in that state, and has been very extensively adopted in the courts of other states. Brooker v. Coffin
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  11. of the court, he had occasion to give his reasons somewhat more fully for the conclusion then expressed. Van Ness v. Hamilton
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  12. punishment, then the words will be in themselves actionable. Attempt was made by counsel in the case of Widrig v. Oyer
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  13. to adopt the suggestion, and repeated and followed the rule in another case reported in the same volume. Martin v. Stillwell
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  14. id. 275. See also Gibbs v. Dewey
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  15. Alexander v. Dewey
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  16. Young v. Miller
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  17. in the reported decisions of the courts of that state, of which one or two more only will be referred to. Bissell v. Cornell
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  18. but the supreme court of the state refused so to hold. Widrig v. Oyer
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  19. Wright v. Page
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  20. uttered language the effect of which was to charge the plaintiff with some crime or offense punishable by law. Dunnell v. Fiske
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  21. office, business, or trust which would probably be injuriously affected by the truth of such imputations. Chaddock v. Briggs
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  22. Mass. 252. Special reference is made to the case of Miller v. Parish
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  23. in correct. Exactly the same question was decided by the same court in the same way twenty-five years later. Kenney v. Laughlin
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  24. but such decisions do not affect any question involved in this investigation. Vandcrip v. Roe
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  25. Simons v. Carter
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  26. that the party has suffered the penalty of the law, and is no longer exposed to the danger of punishment. Krebs v. Oliver
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  27. Fowler v. Dowdney
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  28. words broader than that which the words naturally bear, unless connected with proper introductory averments. Alexander v. Angle
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  29. Goldstein v. Foss
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  30. Carter v. Andrews
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  31. Beardsley v. Tappan
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  32. ambiguous to the material subject matter properly on the record, by the way of averment or colloquium. Gosling v. Morgan
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  33. Shafter v. Kinster
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  34. Andres v. Koppenheafer
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  35. of an infamous character, or which is calculated to affect the party injuriously in his or her social standing. Buck v. Hersey
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  36. Mills v. Wimp
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  37. Perdue v. Burnett
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  38. Demarest v. Haring
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  39. Redway v. Gray
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  40. annotators of the American Leading Cases say that the supreme court of the State of New York, in the case of Brooker v. Coffin
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  41. both criminally and by action, when the mere speaking of the words would not be punishable in either way. Villiers v. Mousely
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  42. Saville v. Jardine
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  43. Keiler v. Sessford
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  44. Janson v. Stuart
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  45. of a very striking character are given, every one of which is supported by the authority of an adjudged case. Lumby v. Allday
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  46. Barnet v. Allen
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  47. been all but seduced by a notorious libertine, was not actionable without averring and proving special damage. Lynch v. Knight
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  48. is alleged, unless it is proved, and the proposition is fully sustained by the cases cited in its support. Welby v. Elston
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  49. and show that such is the rule of decision in all the courts of that country having jurisdiction in such cases. Heming v. Power
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Pollard v. Lyon
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