Proctor v. Houghtaling

Plaintiff sued defendant for verbal slander, charging her with adultery and with being a woman, of gross unchastity. The defendant pleaded the general issue and gave notice of justification, which contains a number of charges against, plaintiff, none of which are specific; or issuable' allegations of misconduct such as was charged in the slanderous accusations. The notice undertakes to. set up a number of facts not amounting to criminality, but, claimed to be such as would warrant suspicions of it. The charges of actual misconduct are of a vague character and contain no element of certainty…