Fatjo v. Seidel

Citations

• 109 La. 699
• 33 So. 737
• 1903 La. LEXIS 428

Syllabus

<p>APPEAL — EVIDENCE—SLANDER—DAMAGES.</p> <p>1. Similarity in statements of witnesses, which ordinarily would be suspicious, is loss so where the witnesses lived together, and the event testified about is one over which they must have conversed a great deal among themselves.</p> <p>2. The defendant, a man of means, having without justification called the plaintiff a thief in the presence of her family, $500 damages is allowed.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>