Smith v. Smith

The appellee sued the appellant for slander, •claiming two thousand dollars damages, and obtained a verdict and judgment for one hundred dollars. The alleged slanderous words were to the effect that the appellee had forged ;a receipt, which purported to have been made by the wife •of the appellant, at a date prior to her death, which had occurred recently. The complaint is in three paragraphs, charging the utterance of the words on the 11th, 12th and 15th days respectively of November, 1878. The answer was .a general denial.

The proof showed that the words were spoken on days not specified, in…