De Mankowski v. Ship Channel Development Co.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of appellee against appellant for slander rendered on the petition of appellee contained in an answer filed by it in a suit for cancellation of contract and appointment of a receiver brought against ap-pellee .by appellant and Mike Szabo, J. M. Boyd, and L. W.' Maxwell, who are stockholders of appellee corporation.

The pleading upon which appellee’s recovery is based, after alleging that appellant had entered into a contract with appellee for the subdivision and sale by it of land adjoining the town of Harrisburg in Harris county to be known and…