Garn v. Lockard

The plaintiff prosecuted defendant in an action of slander. The words complained of charged, in effect, that plaintiff was the keeper of a brothel, and are charged as having been uttered in the presence and hearing of Lewis Biggs and others. Substantially the language imputed to defendant was proven to have been used by him in the presence and hearing of Mr. Biggs, who testified that he heard a part of the conversation between Lockard and Pollock, in which the name of Mrs. Garn was mentioned, and stated that it was “on Sunday, right down in front of the post-office, and Herb Pollock and Os…