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(222 Mich. 278, 192 N. W. 595.)

Evidence, § 1372-wealth of defendant in slander suit.

1. Although evidence of the actual wealth of defendant in a slander suit is not admissible, evidence of his reputed financial standing is admissible as bearing upon the weight and credence that the community would give to his utterances.

[See note on this question beginning on page 3.]

Evidence, § 1399- relations of parties

to secret order.

2. In an action for damages for slander evidence is admissible that defendant was a member of a secret order which plaintiff had made some progress in joining, and that the utterances were made in response to questions of other members of the order, in regard to the matter. Damages, § 31- slander talk as mitigation.

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3. Damages for slander cannot be mitigated by showing that others had uttered the same slander or that it was common talk, but it may be shown

that the common talk had come to the knowledge of defendant before he uttered the slander, and that he believed it, and did no more than repeat what he had heard.

[See 17 R. C. L. 449-451; 3 R. C. L. Supp. 688; 4 R. C. L. Supp. 1132.] Libel, §§ 153, 156 - repetition of rumor as justification.

4. That one accused of slander merely repeated common rumor which had come to his knowledge, and which he believed and repeated without malice, is no justification for the slander. [See 17 R. C. L. 319; 3 R. C. L. Supp. 652; 4 R. C. L. Supp. 1117.]

ERROR to the Circuit Court for Newaygo County (Barton, J.) to review a judgment in favor of plaintiff in an action brought to recover damages for an alleged slander. Reversed.

The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

34 A.L.R.-1

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