Butler v. Wood

Welles, Justice.

The complaint alleges and sets forth two distinct causes of action; and the demurrer is general to both of them. If either cause of action is good, the demurrer must be overruled.

In the first count, the words charged, without the innuendos, are as follows :

“ I believe he has got Mrs. Brockway down there; I am perfectly satisfied in my own mind that she is down there, and is pretty sick ; and that what Butler is running down there so much for, he knocked her up ; her time has come around, and he is down there getting a child away from her. He is procuring an abortion upon her.”

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