Powell v. Powell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Sauk county: James O’Neill, Judge. This action was brought to recover damages for. slander. The complaint sets up three separate causes of action. The defendant answered, setting up two counterclaims, to each of which the plaintiff demurred. The court-sustained the demurrer as to the second counterclaim and overruled it as to the first.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Sauk county: James O’Neill, Judge. This action was brought to recover damages for. slander. The complaint sets up three separate causes of action. The defendant answered, setting up two counterclaims, to each of which the plaintiff demurred. The court-sustained the demurrer as to the second counterclaim and overruled it as to the first. The plaintiff assigns error in overruling the demurrer to the first counterclaim, which is as follows: “Further answering the allegations of the first cause of action in said complaint contained, and as and for a…
1Opinion of the CourtKeewiN, J.
The first cause of action charged that on May 6, 1913, “in the town of Excelsior, county of Sauk, state of Wisconsin, the defendant, in the presence and hearing of Eloyd Darrow, Lula Powell, the plaintiff’s wife, and others, maliciously spoke of and concerning the plaintiff the following false and defamatory words: ‘You stole straw from your mother. You are a thief.’
“Eurther complaining, plaintiff alleges that by reason of the utterance of such false and slanderous words the plaintiff has suffered a great damage to his reputation and has suffered a great mental anguish, and has been damaged…
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