Hancock v. Blackwell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. John A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) The trial court should have sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the evidence for the reason that the evidence only tended to show a single utterance of the alleged slanderous words, namely, to a public peace officer in the course of such officer’s investigation of a recent larceny. Ciarle v. Molyneux,. L. R. 3 Q. B. D. 237; Blaleeslee v. Carroll, 29 Atl.
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Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. John A. Hockaday, Judge. (1) The trial court should have sustained the defendant’s demurrer to the evidence for the reason that the evidence only tended to show a single utterance of the alleged slanderous words, namely, to a public peace officer in the course of such officer’s investigation of a recent larceny. Ciarle v. Molyneux,. L. R. 3 Q. B. D. 237; Blaleeslee v. Carroll, 29 Atl. Rep. 437; O’Donaghue v. M’ Govern, 23 Wend. 26; Grimes v. Coyle, 6 B. Mon. 301; Dale v. Harris, 109 Mass. 193. (2) The release set up in the defendant’s answer in this…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
This is an action for damages for slander brought by plaintiff to the October term, 1894, of the circuit court of Boone county.
The petition was in two counts. The second count was dismissed before trial. The first count, upon which the case was tried, is as follows:
“Plaintiff by leave of court first had and obtained, for her amended petition herein states that heretofore, to wit, on or about the twelfth day of January, 1892, at the county of Boone and State of Missouri, it having been reported to E. C. Clinkscales, then marshal of city of Columbia, in said Boone county, and State of Missouri,…
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