Ellis v. Price

W. H.“Dub” Arnold, Chief Justice.

This case arose when appellee Jean Price filed a complaint against appellant Lorene Ellis and a co-defendant, Henrietta Glayson, contending that they had falsely and maliciously accused the appellee of adultery and that statements made by them were defamatory per se, in that they defamed appellee’s reputation to her husband.

Knowing that appellee was three months pregnant, appellant and Ms. Glayson telephoned appellee’s husband on May 9, 1995, and alleged to him that appellee was having an affair with another man and that the baby appellee was carrying may be…