Cairnes v. Pelton

This is an appeal from a judgment entered against the appellant by the Circuit Court for Allegany County in the action for slander instituted against her by the appellee, Adelaide L. Pelton. There are four exceptions contained in the record. Three of these are concerned with the rulings of the Court upon questions of evidence, and the fourth relates to the disposition made by the Court of the prayers of the respective parties offered at the conclusion of the case.

It appears from the record that the appellee, Mrs. Pelton, who is the mother of a number of children, was the widow of John Pelton,…