Stowell v. Beagle
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. .
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an action for slander. The first count in the declaration laid the charge of slander as follows :
That the defendant, on or about the 14th day of September, 1868, “did falsely and maliciously speak and publish of and concerning said plaintiff, of and concerning a charge of fornication, and thereby intending to charge the plaintiff with having been guilty of said crime of fornication, and then and there intended that said people, and said Mrs. Spidle, who then add there heard of said charge, should so understand the. defendant, and who then and there did understand said defendant, the…
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