Singer v. Bender
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Waukesha County. Tbe action is for slander, and tbe appeal is from an order ovei’ruling a general demurrer to tbe complaint. Tbe other facts sufficiently appear from tbe opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
Tbe respondent, who was plaintiff in tbe court below, stated in bis complaint that be was a butcher and dealer in cattle and provisions, and keeps a meat market for tbe sale and retail of dressed meats; that tbe defendant, in a certain discourse concerning tbe plaintiff in bis said trade and business of a butcher and retailer of meat's, maliciously spoke, etc., of and concerning tbe plaintiff, and of and concerning this plaintiff’s said trade and business, tbe following words: “ That Smger (tbe plaintiff meaning) bad taken an unborn calf from a dead cow, dressed it, and sold a quarter of it…
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