Corning v. Dollmeyer

This was a suit by Mrs. Dollmeyer against Mrs. Corning, for slander. The declaration set out the utterance by defendant concerning plaintiff of language imputing that plaintiff had stolen certain articles of personal property out of defendant’s trunk, which charge was alleged to be false and malicious. By a bill of particulars filed under a rule entered by the court, the utterance of the defamatory words complained of was confined to two occasions; the defamatory words set out in" the third and fourth- counts were alleged to have been spoken to Mrs. Laura Mueller, a daughter of plaintiff, in…