Norris v. Brady

This is an action for slander. The petition alleged that:

“Plaintiff for cause of action states that defendant during the first week in August, 1937, in the county of Buchanan, in the State of Missouri, and-at the home of defendant, to-wit: 210 West Indiana Avenue, in the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, in the presence of Dora Tuggle, willfully, wantonly and maliciously spoke of and concerning the plaintiff certain false, defamatory and slanderous words, to-wit: ‘I have got to go out to my because that damn Norris (meaning plaintiff) who is on my farm is stealing everything I have. I never saw a…