Hewit v. Mason

Boches, Justice.

Demurrer to the complaint. The action is slander. The plaintiff states in his complaint, that he is twenty-two years of age, and unmarried; that in February, 1862, he was ill, whereupon the defendant falsely and maliciously charged him with having an infectious disease, known as lues venerea, by reason of which he was injured in his good name and business, and excluded from the society of his friends and neighbors, to his damage of $2,000, for which he demands judgment. The defendant interposed a general demurrer, and insists that the words are not actionable per se, and that…