Brown v. Scott

Banke, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in a suit for damages for slander and malicious prosecution.

The defendant is the plaintiffs father-in-law. While he and his wife were visiting the plaintiffs family, the plaintiff administered whippings to two of his (the plaintiffs) children (ages 5 and 3), using a belt. The evidence was in sharp conflict as to the severity of the beatings. However, it is not controverted that the defendant threatened to report the plaintiff for child abuse, and that in response the plaintiff stated that a person "could get killed over…