Peabody v. Barham

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of The complaint charged that the defendants wrongfully defamed plaintiff and brought her into contempt and by publishing in the columns of a widely circulated daily the following statement: “Eddie Peabody’s divorcing wife, ten years his senior, is also his aunt! ’ ’ The innuendo which follows the alleged libelous words sets forth that the article referred to plaintiff’s husband, Edwin Ellsworth Peabody; that by the phrase “divorcing wife” defendants intended to designate plaintiff and that by the expression “Eddie Peabody’s divorcing wife . . . also his…