Verner v. Verner
Citations
- 64 Miss. 321
Syllabus
<p>Slander. Action against witness. Section 1004, Code of 1880, considered.</p> <p>The immunity of a witness in a judicial proceeding from liability to an action for slander is not affected by $ 1004, Code of 1880, which provides that “all words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation, are considered as insults, and lead to violence and breaches of the peaee, shall hereafter be abtionable; and no plea, exception, or demurrer shall be sustained in any court within this State to preclude a jury from passing thereon.”</p>
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- “The immunity of a witness in a judicial proceeding from liability to an action for slander is not affected” by a statute making certain words actionable
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