Dufresne v. Weise
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe County Court of Brovin County. Action for slander of tbe female plaintiff. The complaint charges that defendant, on etc., contriving and maliciously designing to injure the female plaintiff in her good name and credit, and to bring her into public scandal, etc., etc., and to harrass and oppress her, did on said day, in the presence and hearing of one Horace White and others, maliciously speak of and concerning said plaintiff certain false and defamatory words…
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APPEAL from tbe County Court of Brovin County. Action for slander of tbe female plaintiff. The complaint charges that defendant, on etc., contriving and maliciously designing to injure the female plaintiff in her good name and credit, and to bring her into public scandal, etc., etc., and to harrass and oppress her, did on said day, in the presence and hearing of one Horace White and others, maliciously speak of and concerning said plaintiff certain false and defamatory words [which are there set forth], meaning thereby that he, the said defendant, had had sexual connection with the said…
1Opinion of the CourtOktoN, J.
The complaint in this case does not assume that the obscene word charged to have been used in connection with the other words, is actionable per se, but imputes to it and the other words a criminal meaning by defining them by innuendo, and by alleging as to whom and under what circumstances they were spoken, by a colloquium. The answer, although denying the use of this identical word, as well as of the other words charged, admits the speaking of words of *295similar import and of precisely the same meaning, and as imputing tbe same crime as defined and explained by the innuendo and colloquium of…
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- Douglass v. TouseyNew York Supreme Court · 1829
- Andrews v. VanduzerNew York Supreme Court · 1814
- Van Ankin v. WestfallNew York Supreme Court · 1817
3Cited by12 opinions
- Newton v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1884
- State v. HaworthUtah Supreme Court · 1902
- Billings v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1889
- Pfister v. Milwaukee Free Press Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
- State v. CatherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
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