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PRVINCE 
 
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 LOWER CANADA 
 
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 IN APPEAL. 
 
 JOHN MUNRO. 
 
 Appellant, 
 
 AND 
 
 PAUL VALLE', 
 
 Respondent. 
 
 
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 THE RESPONDENTS CASE. 
 
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 HIS was an " Action d'Injures" brought by tbe Respondent Paul 
 \&\U, Esqr. Survo)'or of the HighwaAs &c. for the City and Parish of Quebec 
 against the Appellant John Munro, a Merchant of this City. 
 
 The Declaration contains two Counts, the first of which alledges the Ap- 
 pellant to have, with the malicious intent therein expressed, composed and pu- 
 blished and cause to he published a Libel containing the false, scandalous, ma- 
 licious, defamatory, lib, llous matter therein recited of and concerning the said 
 Paul Valle and his said Office of Surveyor &c. — The second Count states the 
 Appellant to have published the same Lbel with the lil^ malicious intention &c. 
 
 The inconveniences allcdged by the Respondent to have resulted to him 
 from the compositiojtand publication of this Libel are fully enumerated in his 
 Declaration. 
 
 Conclusion £^1000 Damages and Costs, 
 The DefendantiTleas were : ^. 
 
 i° J/i defense au fends en droit which the Defendant upon argument could 
 not support. / 
 
 2^ A defense au fonds en fait, upon which issue having been caised, an 
 Enqucte was ordered, which accordingly took place on the fifte«i/of Octo- 
 ber last, when it was proved that the Libel alledged in the Respondent's De- / 
 claiation was all^rT the proper hand writing of the Appellant, and had been 
 publicly handed by him to the ClercAof the Peace, Mr. Perrault, in the Court 
 of Quarter Sessions sitting that Court at Querfbec, and there publicly read at 
 the Appellant's request before a full audience. 
 
 The Appellant endeavoured to prove by witnesses his pecuniary inbability 
 to pay a large sum of money and how far he has succeeded, would still be a 
 problem, were it not evident that the Court below have been powerfully moved 
 by his Plea of Poverty and have on that account chastised him with a snarinir 
 hand. *^ * 
 
 The Judgment of the Court below by which the Appellant was ift the 
 nineteenth of October last found guilty of composing and publishing thdscaa- 
 dalous Libel exhibited by the Record, condemns the Appellant to pav to the 
 Res^pondcnt the very moderate Sum of ^^50 currency with 'costs, and from that 
 Judgment the present Appeal has been brought. 
 
 The reasons of Appeal are reducible to three. C / 
 
 1st. The insufficiency of the Declaration. / 
 
 2dly. The want of Evidence to support the Action. 
 
 3dly. The illegality and inadmissibility of the Respondent's Evidence. 
 
 The Respondent's Answers are general. 
 
 
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