Westerhouse v. DeWitt

This action is for damages for slander. The declaration charges that defendant, on November 5, 1918, at the township of Spring Lake, in the county of Ottawa, in the presence of divers persons, said that plaintiff had raised her skirts in an indecent manner in his presence, that the testimony he had given at the trial of one Bert Holstege, to the effect that plaintiff’s reputation for morality and chastity was bad, was) true, and that he further said that plaintiff went out and stayed all night in an automobile with a perfect stranger. The defendant pleaded the general issue and gave notice…