Pecyk v. Semoncheck

*466OPINION

By HUNSICKER, PJ.:

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment rendered on the verdict of a jury.

The plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Walter Pecyk, deceased, filed an action in the Municipal Court of Cleveland, Ohio, against the defendant, Michael Semoncheck, wherein such administrator, Anthony Pecyk, alleged that Semoncheck “did wilfully utter and publish concerning” the father of the plaintiff (who was the plaintiff’s and is now the appellee’s decedent), “false, malicious and defamatory matter” as follows:

“I knew Toney Pecyk’s father for 24 years, and I know he’s…