The Court took time to consider the motion, and at an after day in the term, the following opinion was delivered, by Parsons, C. J. The plaintiff has commenced an action of the case, demanding damages of the defendant for an injury to his character, committed by the defendant, in maliciously uttering and publishing defamatory words, which imported that the plaintiff had committed felony by robbing the Nantucke…
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