Burch v. Bernard
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Pipestone county to recover $5,000 for slander. The case was tried before P. E. Brown, J., and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $1,875. From an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, he appealed..
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
The respondent, Billian Burch, an unmarried woman nineteen years of age, who resided with her parents at Pipestone, Minnesota, was during the month of December, 1907, employed by the city authorities to nurse a young woman who was afflicted with the smallpox and quarantined in a building provided for that purpose. On January 13, 1908, Miss Burch presented a bill for her services to the city council, and while the question of the payment of the bill was under consideration by the council the appellant, J. I. Bernard, who was a member of the council, made the statement, in rough and offensive…
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