Sowers v. Wells

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wedell, J.:

This was an action for damages predicated upon an alleged slanderous statement. The defendant has appealed from an order sustaining plaintiff’s motion to strike a certain paragraph of his answer.

Plaintiff is an attorney, and according to his petition, had been engaged in the practice of law in the state of Missouri for more than five years, had been recently admitted to practice law in the state of Kansas and was engaged m the practice while presenting a claim for damages against the city of Wichita, when the alleged slanderous *631remarks were…