Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Rivers
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Rivers
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opiixion of the court.
This case was tried upon the third count of the amended declaration, and it is on this count that the verdict was rendered and the judgment entexud. We think the court below ruled correctly with respect to the statute of limitations. Substantially, the original declaration charged the same matter as tbe third count of the amended declaration. The second count of the orig
The now very common assignment of error that the cause should be reversed because of remarks of counsel has the usual lack of merit. There is nothing whatever in the point. We have heretofore remarked, and we do not see. why we should be called upon again and again to repeat it, that the twelve men who sit in the jury box are presumed to be men of common sense, honest, and desirous only of trying the case according to the law and the evidence, not according to the remarks of counsel, wise or foolish. The conversation at Jackson is the only conversation presented on this record for the consideration of the jury; not the one at MeComb City.
Bor the errors which have been indicated, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed.
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- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company v. John Rivers
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- 1. Slander. Limitation of actions. Amendment of declaration. LTeto cause of action. The causes of action stated in an original and in an amended declaration for slander are the,same, the original declaration charging the actionable words spoken to have been, “the old -— is stealing and I want him discharged” and the amended one averring that they were, “the oldest foreman on the road was caught stealing;” and the statute of limitation did not run against plaintiff after the beginning of the suit. 2. Same. Deposition. Evidence. In an action for slander it was error to admit the deposition of a witness as to what was said in a conversation other than the one on which the suit is based. 3. Same. When exclusion of evidence too late to cure error. Where, a deposition, most damaging in its character, was erroneously admitted in an action of slander, the error was not cured by excluding it after it remained with the jury overnight. 4. Trial. Remarles of counsel. On a trial for slander against a railroad, it was not reversible error for plaintiffs counsel to state that the railroad had seen fit to employ time checkers who were no more than spies on honest men, and who, if they did not report somebody, would lose their positions.