McLeod v. Crosby

The defendant has appealed from a verdict and judgment for $320 in an action for slander and malicious prosecution. The three counts for slander are substantially alike, and the following-quotation from the first will serve to make plain the rulings and points raised thereon:

“ * * * say of and concerning this plaintiff, in the presence and hearing of this plaintiff, Charles S. Fuller, and other divers good and worthy citizens of the State of Michigan, did speak, publish, and declare of and concerning said plaintiff the following false, malicious, and defamatory words, to wit: ‘McLeod stole…