Strauss v. Meyer

This was an action on the case, for the recovery of damages claimed by appellant for slandering his character. It appears, from the averments in the declaration, that appellant was a real estate agent in the city of Chicago, and that Alexander and Philip Goldsmith had made an assignment of their property and effects to him, as trustee, for the benefit of creditors; that appellees filed a bill in chancery in the Cook Circuit Court, for the purpose of enj oining appellant from proceeding to execute the trust, and for his removal as assignee of the Goldsmiths.

In the first count it is averred…