Semple v. Andrews

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for damages in the sum of $2,000 and costs in an action for slander. The complaint presents two causes of action, and although the first cause of action is denominated by defendant as an action for libel, there is no question but that both causes of action sound in slander.

In her complaint plaintiff alleged that she then was and for many years last past had been by profession an ordained evangelist; that as such evangelist she was and had been well known to and recognized by thousands of persons; that plaintiff had…