Interstate Co. v. Jolly

The appellee, Zelma J oily, a minor, by her next friend, E. P. Smith, brought this action in the circuit court of Holmes county against the appellants, the Interstate Company, a foreign corporation, and Borneo Favretto, a resident of said county, for slander, and recovered a judgment in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, the amount sued for. From that judgment, appellants prosecute this appeal.

The facts in this case are, in all respects, substantially the same as were the facts in the case of Interstate Co. et al. v. Garnett (Miss.), 122 So. at pages 373 and 756, there being two…