Campbell v. Irwin

Appellant, an unmarried woman, sued the appellee in an action for slander, wherein she demanded damages for the alleged wrong in the sum of |5,000.00. The complaint is in three paragraphs, each containing three sets of words upon which the alleged slander is based. By innuendoes and averments, it is charged that the defendant, on the several occasions mentioned, by speaking and publishing the words set out therein, imputed to the plaintiff the crime of fornication with one Dr. S. G. Irwin; that she so meant and intended to impute said crime to the plaintiff, and was so understood by the…