Bull v. Collins

This is a suit to recover damages for slander. The allegations undertaking to set forth the defamatory words, in so far as same constituted the basis of the judgment below, were that “ * ⅜ * • the defendant (i. e., A. R. Collins) accused the plaintiff herein (i. e., R. L. Bull) of embezzlement and theft, making the statement that $15.00 had been missed from one of the drug stores and that either the plaintiff herein or another one of the employees, Harmon Morrison, Jr., had taken the said money.” It was alleged that by such statement was meant that “they had stolen it.” There were other…