Copeland v. Carpenter

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The sufficiency of the petition is challenged by the demurrer on the ground that it states no cause of action for any of the relief prayed. “The owner of any estate in lands may maintain an action for libelous or slanderous words falsely and maliciously impugning his title, if any damage shall have accrued to him therefrom.” Code, § 105-1411. A petition which alleges the uttering and publishing of slanderous words, that they were false, that they were malicious, that special damage resulted, and that the plaintiff had an estate in the…