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PROVINCE OP CANADA.

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ANDREW WHITE,

Defendant in the Court lelow,

Appeuant :

THOMAS NYE,

PlaintiJ in the Court below,

Respondent i

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APPELLANT'S CASE.

Tho judgment appealed from, is one rendered by the honorable Mr. Justice Charles
Mondclct, holding the Superior Court in Montreal, dismissing the motion of the appel-
lant for a jury trial.

Tho action is one of damages for slander, tho Defendant pleaded matter in mitiga-
tion, and alleged havina; made a tender of a certain amount to leave no pretext to the
PlaintilTfor going on with his action.

This plea was dismissed ou demurrer by his Honor Mr. Justice Smith, who held
that under tho general issue, tho Defendant could prove all the allegations of his plea.

Tlio ditiniissal of tho plea loft tho Appellant with a Defense en fait, but without any
option for a jury trial.

The Appellant thought it his duty before going to the expense of an appeal to re-
new his application for a jury-trial, and he made his motion accordingly. His Honor
Jlr. Justice Mondelct dismissed it on the ground thiit the Appellant had no other recourse
ihtiH that if apiKitlingfrom the Judgment if his Honor Mr. Justice Smith dismissing the plea,
which judpuient Mr. Justice Mondelet thought an erroneous one. These two conflict-
ing decisions arise from the essentially different view the two learned judges take of tho
cfTect of tho general issue, ]Mr. Justice Smith looking upon it as having the same efi'ecta
as it has in England in similar cases, while Mr. Justico Mondelet considers it in tho
light of a mere dencgation of the allegations of tho PlaiutilT, without allowing the
Defendant to prove any matter in mitigation and a fortiori in this case without allowing
him io prove the tender by him made.

This Honorable Court has only allowed the appeal from the judgment dismissing
the motion foi a jury-trial. Whatever may bo tho appellant's position as to proof in
tho absence of r» si)ecial plea, he has a right since ho declared his option formally to
that eifect at the time ho fyied his plea, that the evidence on both sidos, whatever it
n)ay b«) shall be adduced before a Jury, and that the Jury and not the Court shall deter-
mine the amount of damages the PlaintiiThas sufl'ored, and tho question will then remain
if the tender made should bo found to cover tho amount of tho verdict, whether tho
Plaintiff or the Defendant should pay the costs of the action.

LAFLAMME, LAFLAMME & BARNARD,

Attorneys for Appellant
Montreal, October, 18^8.

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