Bailey v. Kling

This action is for slander. The petition is in the usual form, and alleges the use of language by defendant to plaintiff, in the presence and hearing of others, by which defendant is accused of charging plaintiff, who is unmarried, with being a lewd woman. The style of language *700alleged to have been used is in the most rough and ungentlemanly form, but which we do not deem it necessary to repeat here. The charge is alleged to have connected plaintiff’s lewdness with a “traveling” married man by the name of Glick.

Defendant filed an amended answer to plaintiff’s petition, which consisted of:…