Boldt v. Budwig

The defendants in error sued the plaintiffs in error in the district court for certain scandalous and defamatory *740words spoken by the plaintiff in error, Hannab Boldt, of and concerning the defendant in error, Caroline Budwig. The defendants in error as well as the plaintiffs in error are severally husband and wife.

The petition was in the ordinary form of a petition in slander, charging that Hannah Boldt had spoken certain false slanders and defamatory words of and concerning Caroline Budwig to the damage of the plaintiffs; that the plaintiffs were then and there husband and wife, and that the…