Dunn v. Bruat

This is a suit for damages for an alleged eviction and slander.

The plaintiffs are husband and wife and both alleged damages for the eviction. Evidence was excluded as to this demand of the wife because the right of action for the eviction belonged to the community, and plaintiffs acquiesce in this ruling.

The evidence offered to prove the alleged slander was admitted only for the restricted *378purpose of proving an assault; the lower court ruling that the language alleged to have been used by the defendant did not, in law, constitute slander; but, if the alleged verbal assault was established,…