Poling v. Pickens

BeaNNON, Judge:

Matilda J. Poling and Lewis W. Poling, her husband, sued Emma V. Pickens and Robert Pickens, her husband, in the circuit court of Upshur county for slander of Matilda Poling by Emma Pickens, and there was a verdict for the plaintiff and judgment thereon. We have a writ of error from that judgment.

The plaintiffs in error assign it as error that the demurrer to the declaration, consisting of one count, was overruled. The declaration avers that the plaintiff, Matilda J. Poling, *119was a true and honest citizen and bad always well behaved herself, and until the wrong imputed to the…