Sally v. Brown

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner — '

Affirming.

This appeal is prosecuted by Shilo 'Sally from a $500 judgment for slander recovered against him by Corbett Brown. These men had been, at the August primary, 19'26, rivals for nomination as candidate for the office of justice of the peace for the Fourth district of Perry county. This was a bitter struggle; Brown was successful, and Sally appears to have been chafed by his defeat. It is claimed that on October 15, 1926, in a conversation with Ed Griffith, a brother-in-law of Corbett Brown, Shilo Sally said to Griffith, of and concerning…