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- Title: Mcginnis v. Robinson
- Author : Supreme Court of North Carolina
- Release Date : January 18, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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Where false statements are actionable only per quod, some special damage must be pleaded and proved. 5 Strong, N.C. Index 2d, Libel and Slander, § 4, p. 207, and cases therein cited. "When items of special damage are claimed each shall be averred." G.S. 1A-1, Rule 9(g). Special damage, as that term is used in the law of defamation, means pecuniary loss, as distinguished from humiliation. Penner v. Elliott, 225 N.C. 33, 33 S.E.2d 124; Scott v. Harrison, 215 N.C. 427, 2 S.E.2d 1; Payne v. Thomas, 176 N.C. 401, 97 S.E. 212; 1 McIntosh, N.C. Practice & Procedure 2d, § 991, p. 541.