Roe v. Chitwood

Action for slander in the circuit court of Crawford county. Complaint in substance, as follows ;

I. The plaintiffs, Berry Roe and Malinda Y. Roe, state that they are husband and wife, and that the defendant, Joseph Chitwood, heretofore, to wit: On the twenty-first day of March, 1877, at, etc., in a certain conversation or discourse, which the said defendant, then and there, had of and concerning the said plaintiff, Malinda Y. Roe, to and in the hearing of one Berry Nations, after stating to said Nations that a certain woman, named Jane Palmer, was a base whore, falsely used, uttered and…