Pearlstein v. Draizin

This is a motion to strike two causes of action from a complaint on the ground that they fail to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.

The plaintiff is a female. The action is for slander. The first cause of action charges defendants with having said of the plaintiff, “ What can you expect of a reformatory bum? the second, with having said, “ She is a bum; she is a tramp.” The well-settled rule in actions for slander is that the words complained of are to be taken and understood in that sense which is most natural and obvious and according to the ideas they are intended to…