Bower v. Deideker
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hamilton Circuit Court. Action for assault and battery, arid for slander. This appeal relates only to the latter. The slanderous words, as laid in the petition, with proper application, are, “ you do as the whores do,” “you act like the whores.”
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Appeal from Hamilton Circuit Court. Action for assault and battery, arid for slander. This appeal relates only to the latter. The slanderous words, as laid in the petition, with proper application, are, “ you do as the whores do,” “you act like the whores.” The answer is a general denial, and also sets up mitigating circumstances, to-wit: that plaintiff is a married woman and circulated among her neighbors that she had twice taken drugs to produce miscarriage, and was once successful; also, had circulated that on her return from a visit to Wisconsin she had stopped off' the train near Charles…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
— I. The plaintiff introduced herself as a witness, and testified to the speaking of the words, substantially as laid in the petition; she also testified that she had a miscarriage, a year and a half before, caused by overwork. On cross-examination she testified that the slanderous words were spoken wholly in the German language, and in a conversation carried on wholly in that language; and that she did not tell the defendant’s wife that her miscarriage was caused by drugs. An interpreter was sworn and testified, that the correct translation of the slanderous words, spoken in the German…
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