Meyers v. Fort

This is an appeal from a $500 judgment, for plaintiff, in a slander case. The case was tried in Wayne county without a jury.

Plaintiff is a white woman and, at the time of accusation, was married. Defendant is a colored woman and separated from her husband. Mr. Hughes Caldwell is also colored, and a married man. All 3 work at the Chrysler factory in Detroit.

Plaintiff alleged that the slander consisted in defendant’s statement to various people that she had observed plaintiff kissing Hughes Caldwell, and further that plaintiff had asked defendant for the use of her apartment for immoral…