Barry v. Baugh

Russell, Judge.

Where special damages are not averred, an action for slander must fall within one of the categories enumerated in Code § 105-702, and the plaintiff here cannot recover for slander unless the words constitute “charges made against another in reference to his trade, office, or profession, calculated to injure him therein." The defendant doctor in the course of a telephone conversation with the county ordinary relative to having the plaintiff’s husband committed to a mental institution, stated that the plaintiff, a nurse, was also crazy, which fact caused the plaintiff to become…