Myrtle Hollman v. Catherine Brady

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska awarding appellee $1,500 for slander. Appellant contends that her statement was not slanderous per se, that the District Court erred in not instructing the jury that the slanderous statement must have proximately caused appellant's damage, and that irregularities in the selection of a jury constituted reversible error.

The uncontradicted testimony is that appellant stated to appellee’s husband in the presence of others, “You’re not so smart. Your wife is an ex-whore from Butte, Montana,” and…