Springer v. Swift

Plaintiff instituted her action against the defendant to recover actual and exemplary damages for slander. The complaint undertook to set forth two causes of action. The first cause of action charged that the defendant wrongful^, fraudulenty, and maliciously published to Mrs. Charles L. Swift, his wife, a certain false, untrue, and slanderous statement concerning the plaintiff imputing to the plaintiff thereby the present existence of an infectious, contagious, and loathsome disease. As to the first cause of action, there is no allegation that the statement was made in the presence or hearing…