Middleby v. Effler

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error on which the defendant below seeks to reverse a judgment and set aside a verdict in favor of the plaintiff below. It is convenient to call the defendant below the “defendant,” and the plaintiff below the “plaintiff.” The action was for slander. The declaration contains several counts, but the sixth, inserted by amendment, gives the substance of everything in the others, and also the substance of all which the plaintiff claims to have been proved in her behalf. This count is as follows:

“For that the defendant, on or about the 3d day of September,…