McDonald v. Nugent
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque District Court. — Hon. M. C. Matthews, Judge. Action at law to recover damages on account of an alleged slander. Verdict for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
The plaintiff charges the defendant, who is his mother-in-law, with saying to him, in substance, that he, a married man, was in the habit of consorting with lewd women, and, through such adulterous intercourse, had contracted a loathsome sexual disease, which he bad communicated to his wife. The defendant denies the allegation, and *652justifies by pleading the truth of the charge. He also sets up certain matters by way of mitigation, and pleads that the language that she did use was of a privileged character.
I. The first proposition of the defendant is that the verdict of the jury is clearly…
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