Hanson v. Feuling
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover damages for slander. The complaint sets up four separate causes of action. The defendant answered by way of general denial and set up matters in mitigation of damages. The defendant objected to any evidence under the first and third causes of action, on the ground that neither of them stated facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover damages for slander. The complaint sets up four separate causes of action. The defendant answered by way of general denial and set up matters in mitigation of damages. The defendant objected to any evidence under the first and third causes of action, on the ground that neither of them stated facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The court sustained the objection to the third cause of action and overruled it as to the first, to which ruling the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
EíeewtN, J.
1. Several errors are assigned and argued here as grounds for reversal. The first is that the objection to any evidence under the first cause of action should have been sustained. The essential allegations are: Andrew Hanson (and meaning thereby this plaintiff) has been over and stayed with your woman when you were not at home/ meaning and intending thereby to charge that the plaintiff' has had improper relations with the said Mrs. Knute Hanson.” The contention of the appellant under this head is-that there was not sufficient matter set up by way of inducement or colloquium. We are…
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- Langton v. HagertyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
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