Becker v. Schiller
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for slander. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee County; the Hon. Charles E. Starr, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1893.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion oe the Court,
Cartwright, J.
This is a suit by appellee against appellant, for slander: The declaration charged that appellant, in a conversation in the German language, used, concerning appellee, the following slanderous words: “ Mrs. Schiller is eine hure. She lives with a hure-master,” It was also alleged that these words, when interpreted into the English language, were as follows: “Mrs, Schiller is a whore. She lives with a whoremaster.” There was a trial, resulting in a verdict for appellee, for §500, on which judgment was entered.
The parties were German, well advanced in years,…
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