Thiel v. Dove

TMs action for slander was brought by the appellee, Virginia Dove, who asserts that the appellant, George Edward Thiel, falsely accused her of adultery. The jury awarded the plaintiff $14.00 as compensatory damages and $1,400.00 as punitive damages. The appellant questions the sufficiency of the evidence and the correctness of the count’s instructions to the jury.

Thiel, who was the municipal judge at Paragould, was standing on the sidewalk across the street from the Reynolds Apartments at about 9:30 on the evening of July 24, 1957. He says that in' one of the apartments he saw a city…