Salvo v. Edens

This is an action for damages under the actionable words statute. The suit was filed by the appellee, Mrs. Florence Temple Edens, against the appellant, Emile W. Salvo, Jr., in the Circuit Court of Adams County. The appellee based her suit upon an alleged common law libel and upon Section 1059, Volume 1A Recompiled, Mississippi Code of 1942, commonly referred to as the actionable words statute. On the trial of the case the court gave a peremptory instruction for the appellant insofar as the action was based upon common law libel, and submitted the case to the jury under the actionable words…