De Pew v. Robinson

Best, C.

This was an action of slander brought by the appellee against the appellant.

The complaint consisted of four paragraphs. The first, second and fourth alleged, in substance, that the appellee was then, and had for a long time been, a practicing physician in Noble county, Indiana, and that appellant, at said county, during said time, charged him, in the presence and hearing of others, with being “ nothing but a G — d d-d abortionist,” thereby imputing to him the offence of causing the miscarriage of women when not necessary to preserve life, to his damage, etc.

The third averred, in…