Fox v. McCurnin

— As above indicated, plaintiff pleaded four causes of action against the defendant, set out in separate counts in his petition. In the first count he pleaded assault and battery ; second, false arrest; third, false imprisonment; and fourth, libel and slander. As heretofore noted, the fourth count was dismissed, and,, on motion at the end of plaintiff’s testimony, the first count was taken from the jury. The answer was a general denial.

The general history of the transactions out of which this action arose is about as follows: Fox was a tenant of a suite of rooms in the St. Elmo Apartments in…