Curley v. Feeney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lippincott, J.

This is an action for slander. The declaration, consisting of one count, contains all the necessary formal averments. A demurrer has been filed, and the first cause of demurrer is that the declaration does not show a cause of action, and secondly, that the declaration does not, by the innuendo, specify the defamatory sense in which the words complained of are used.

Under these two causes of demurrer the objection, specifically, is that one of the two acts with which the plaintiff is charged by the defendant by the alleged defamatory words…