D. B. Loveman Co. v. Bayless

*309Bayless, the defendant in error, sned the D. B. Love-man Company, a mercantile corporation, and two of its servants, D. B. Loveman, its president, and D. C. Seymour, its superintendent, in an action of damages, in ■the.circuit court of Hamilton county. The declaration contained eight counts, but presented only three distinct charges, false imprisonment, assault and battery, .and slander, all rooted in the same transaction, or .series of transactions. The defendants pleaded not .guilty to all of the counts, hut also interposed special pleas of justification as to the „ matter of slander…