Wood v. Custer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

O. T. Wood recovered a judgment against W. A. Custer in an action for slander, and the defendant appeals. The petition alleged that the defendant had made statements (among others) to the effect that the plaintiff had been stealing cattle for twenty years. .The defendant in his answer denied making the specific statements attributed to him, but added that in conversation with some of the persons named in the petition he had said in substance that it was generally believed that the plaintiff had been guilty of the matters referred to; he also…