Abbott v. Vinson

Opinion op the Court by

Cheep Justice McCandless

— Reversing.

In this action for slander it is alleged that defendant falsely, etc., “spoke and published in the presence and hearing of Lucille Roberts, Ruby Roberts, Lenore Roberts, Miss Jones, John D. Marcum, Jay Roberts, and divers other persons, of and concerning plaintiff, in substance these words: ‘If you had not sold Paul Frazier dope, he would have been alive. You sold him the dope that caused him to kill himself. My wife saw you sell him an eight-ounce bottle of dope’ ” — thereby falsely and maliciously imputing to plaintiff the crime of…