Rodebaugh v. Hollingsworth

Case for slander. The declaration follows: “ State of Indiana, Marion county. In the Marion Circuit Court. Rachel C. Hollingsworth, an infant within the *340age of twenty years, by her next friend George Hollingsworth, whose consent thereto in writing is filed in Court, complains of Jacob Rodebcmgh of a plea of trespass on the case for slanderous words spoken. For that the plaintiff is, and always has been, a person of good character, and honest and chaste in all her deportment; and, until the committing of the grievances by the defendant hereinafter set forth, the plaintiff had never been…