Butler v. Freyman.

This is an action in damages for slander. At the time of the institution of the suit plaintiff was a minor, under twenty-one years of age, and the suit was brought in the name of plaintiff by her sister, Lillian Spillman, her leg*ally appointed guardian and next friend.

In July, 1919, plaintiff, then seventeen or eighteen years of age, went with her elder married sister, said Lillian Spillman, into defendant’s millinery store, located on the south side of Felix street between Sixth and Seventh streets in the City of St. Joseph, Mo., for the purpose of buying a hat for the latter. The testimony…