Vanover v. W. M. Ritter Lumber Co.

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner —

Affirming.

Plaintiff, Roscoe Vanover, brought this suit against the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company and J. B. Holbrook to recover damages for slander. The lumber company’s demurrer to the petition as amended was sustained and the petition dismissed. Plaintiff appeals.

After alleging that plaintiff was a regularly licensed and practicing attorney at law, and that the lumber company was a corporation, the petition is as follows:

“Plaintiff says that on the 22nd day of March, 1918, as attorney for David Shortridge, who sued by his father and…