Gove v. Blethen
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from an order of the district court, for Olmsted county, overruling a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtMcMillan, C. J.
This is an action for slander. The defendant demurred to the complaint, upon the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The demurrer was overruled, and the defendant appealed from the order overruling the demurrer.
There are two classes of defamatory words for which an action may be sustained: first, words which are actionable in themselves; second, those which become so, in consequence of some special damage which they have caused.
Whether words are actionable in themselves, or not, de*81pends, among other things, upon whether they are spoken of a person…
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