Kerone v. Block
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. Virgil Rule, Judge. (1) The petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. To call a woman a hitch is not actionable-per se, and a fortiori it is not actionable to call her a hen or a cat.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Eon. Virgil Rule, Judge. (1) The petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. To call a woman a hitch is not actionable-per se, and a fortiori it is not actionable to call her a hen or a cat. Schurick v. Kollman, 50 Ind. 338; Craig v. Pyles, 101 Ky. 593; Blake v. Smith, 19 R. I. 481; Graver v. Norton, 114 la. 47; Shields v. State, 89 G;a. 549; Roby v. Murphy, 27 111. App. 398; Nealon v. Frisbee, 31 N. T. Supp. 856; Jacobs v. Cates, 87 Minn. 448; Robertson v. Edelstein, 104 Wis. 440;' Dyer v. Morris, 4 Mo. 214; State v.…
1Opinion of the CourtNixon, P. J.
This was an action for slander, commenced by the respondent against the appellant, Albert S. Block, in which the cause of action was stated in the petition as follows: (Caption omitted.)
“Now comes the plaintiff in the above entitled action and for her first amended petition, filed herein by leave of court first had and obtained, states that she is and was at all times herein mentioned a single and unmarried woman and that the defendant, Albert S. Block, on the 29th day of October, A. D. 1907, in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, in the presence and hearing of a large,number of…
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- Schurick v. KollmanIndiana Supreme Court · 1875
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