Cooper v. Davidson

This is an action by the appellee for slander under the actionable words statute, section 11, Code 1930, reading: “All words which, from their usual construction and common acceptation, are considered as insults, and calculated to lead to a breach of the peace, shall be actionable; and a plea, exception or demurrer shall not be sustained to preclude a jury from passing thereon, who are the sole judges of the damages sustained; but this shall not deprive the courts of the power to grant new trials, as in other cases.”

The amended declaration’s allegation of the words spoken to the appellee is…