Yocum v. Husted
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clarke District Court. — Thomas Maxwell, Judge. Suit to recover damages because defendants engaged in a conspiracy to slander the plaintiff. The defendants are jointly impleaded for this alleged conspiracy, and it is further charged that each and all of them carried out the objects of the conspiracy, and did slander the plaintiff. There were directed verdicts for each of the defendants, jointly and severally, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSalinger, J.
I. The petition was in three counts. We need consider the first one only, because all matter added *121in the second and third count to the’ allegations of the first has no support in the evidence. The first count charges that the defendants, Boyd Husted, Earl Husted, and Gale Husted, conspired together at the funeral of their father, who was the husband of the plaintiff, to publish the false accusation that plaintiff was guilty of the murder of her said husband, by poison administered.
At the close of all the testimony, all three of the defendants moved jointly and severally that verdict be…
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