Reeder v. Pace

McCALEB, Judge.

The plaintiff, a colored woman, alleges that the defendant, also a colored woman, on February 10, 1936, at a meeting of the Second Free Mission Baptist Church at New Orleans, slandered her by calling her a thief, and by saying that she stole funds belonging to the Twenty-Fourth McDonogh School. She prays for damages in the sum of $300 as a result of the defamatory remarks.

Defendant, in answer to the petition, filed a general denial.

At the trial below, the plaintiff proved the charges made in the petition, by herself and seven other witnesses, and also established that the…