Bradshaw v Walker

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1682
Date01 January 1682
CourtCourt of Common Pleas

English Reports Citation: 123 E.R. 1081

THE COMMON PLEAS

Bradshaw
and
Walker

mich. 17 jao. bradshaw versus walker. Case. Hob. 249. Words, Hitching money. An action of the case was brought for saying, Thou art a filtching fellow, and didst filtch four pounds from me; and after verdict for the plaintiff it was moved in arrest of judgment, that the words were not actionable: and so the Court resolved, for the word filtching is dubious, and may be by cousenage, by shifting, by deceit, and is not felony but by implication ; and it is not good to enlarge actions for words. Plaintiff nil eapiat per breve.

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