Scott v Doherty

JurisdictionScotland
Judgment Date04 August 1843
Year1843
Date04 August 1843
Docket NumberNo. 3
CourtCourt of Session (Inner House - Second Division)
2D DIVISION.

Lord Justice-Clerk. Jury Cause.

No. 3
Scott
and
Doherty

Reparation—Slander.

THE cause and grounds of this action appeared from the issues, which were in the following terms:—

‘Whether, on or about the 13th day of January 1843, in the public street, near the north end of George the Fourth's Bridge, Edinburgh, and in the presence and hearing of Charles Glendonwyn Scott, son of the pursuer, James Fraser Gordon, Esq., residing at No. 26 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, William Nathaniel Fraser, Esq., younger of Find-rack, also residing there, and George Lindsay Crawford, Esq., residing at No. 22 St Leonard's Street, Edinburgh, or any of them, the defender

did falsely and calumniously say, that the pursuer, Mrs Scott, was a liar, and totally unworthy of credit, or did use or utter words to that effect, or of a similar meaning and import, to the injury and damage of the pursuer.

‘Whether the defender, on or about the said 13th day of January 1843, did write and transmit to Sir Charles Gordon of Drimen, knight, residing in Albyn Place, Edinburgh, the letter No. 10 of process, in which, inter alia, he stated—“Mrs Scott, as she is called, of Parton, having...

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