McQueen v. Fulgham, 27 Tex. 463; Underhill v. Welton, 32 Vt. 40 Contra.
Damage caused by another person’s repetition of the defendant’s words is too remote. Holwood v. Hopkins, Cro. El. 787; Ward v. Weeks, 7 Bing. 211 (but see Riding v. Smith, 1 Ex. D. 91); Rutherford v. Evans, 4 Car. & P. 74; Tunnicliff v. Moss, 3 Car. & K. 83; Kendillon v. Maltby, 1 Car. & M. 402; Parkins v. Scott, 1 H. & C. 153; Dixon v. Smith, 5 H. & N. 450; Clarke v. Morgan, 38 L. T. Rep. 354; Bree v. Marescaux, 7 Q. B. Div. 434; Cates v. Kellogg, 9 Ind. 506; Stevens v. Hartwell, 11 Met. 542; Hastings v. Stetson, 126 Mass. 329; Hastings v. Palmer, 20 Wend. 225; Hallock v. Miller, 2 Barb. 630; Olmsted v. Brown, 12 Barb. 657; Terwilliger v. Wands, 17 N. Y. 54; Fowles v. Bowen, 30 N. Y. 20; Bassell v. Elmore, 48 N. Y. 561 (but see Sewell v. Catlin, 3 Wend. 295; Keenholts v. Becker, 3 Den. 346).
See also Whitney v. Moignard, 24 Q. B. Div. 630; Speight v. Gosnay, 60 L. J. Q. B. 231; Adams v. Cameron, 27 Cal. App. 625; Mills v. Flynn, 157 Ia. 477; Fitzgerald v. Young, 89 Neb. 693.
The rule is otherwise where the repetition is made as a privileged communication. Gillett v. Bullivant, 7 L. T. 490; Derry v. Handley, 16 L. T. Rep. 263; Fowles v. Bowen, 30 N. Y. 20.
[533]. Only the opinion of the court is given.
[534]. The case is materially abridged.
[535]. The statement of the counts is abridged, and the arguments of counsel are omitted.
[536]. But see now Paterson v. Welch, (Court of Sess. May 31, 1893) 20 R. 744. See also Odgers, Lib. & Sl. (1st ed.) 87, 91; Odgers, Outlines of Law of Libel, 17, 18; Clerk & Lindsell, Torts, (1st ed.) 497–98; Salmond, Torts, 426–27; Bower’s Code of Actionable Defamation, 338–39, 443–45.
[537]. “It may be reasonable to allow St. Peter a primacy of order, such a one as the ringleader hath in a dance.”—Barrow’s Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy, Oxford edition of Works, 1830, vol. vii. p. 70. In Fox’s Preface to Tyndall’s Works, “these three learned fathers of blessed memory, William Tyndall, John Frith, and Robert Barons,” are styled “chief ringleaders in these latter tymes of thys Church of England.”—Reporter’s Note.
[538]. Only the opinion of Day, J., is given. Wills, J., concurred.