Woodruff v. Woodruff

This is an action of slander and is predicated upon certain words having been spoken by the defendant against the plaintiff, who is a married woman.

The plaintiff, by her complaint, shows that she has always been an honorable, virtuous and upright woman; and has never been guilty of. any of the offenses charged in the complaint and alleged to have been spoken by the defendant of and concerning the plaintiff. In several counts following, it is alleged that the plaintiff communicated to her husband a loathsome disease through their marital relations. . That said words were uttered and published…