Kivett v. Nevils

The bill in this cause was filed in the Chancery Court of Claiborne County, and charged the defendants with uttering and publishing certain false and malicious slanders and defamations against the complainant, and that defendants, in connection with said slanders and defamations, were exhibiting a certain letter purporting to be signed by the complainant; that said letter was spurious and a forgery; that the substance of said slanders and defamations was that the complainant had been guilty of illicit sexual relations with a fifteen-year-old girl; and that the letter purported to have been…