Byk v. Weber

• This is a motion by the plaintiff in a slander action to strike out certain defenses as insufficient in law and certain paragraphs of a defense as unnecessary and prejudicial. The second and third separate defenses are good on their face and there is no reason for striking out any of the paragraphs of the second separate defense.. That leaves only one point, and one which raises an interesting question: the sufficiency in law of the first separate defense. The defendant in his answer denied uttering the words complained of as slanderous. In his first separate defense he says in effect that…