Gust v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Plaintiff brought suit to recover damages on account of certain slanderous words used toward her by one of defendant’s, employees in its store in Joplin, Missouri. On trial to a jury, plaintiff, appellant here, recovered a verdict in the sum of $1500. Thereafter the trial court sustained defendant’s motion for new trial and plaintiff has appealed from the order granting the new trial.

The motion for new trial contained a number of grounds, one of which was, that the trial court erred in refusing to give an instruction for defendant in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence offered at the…