Alesi v. Conant

Webb, Judge.

Sherrill Alesi, a defendant in a suit for fraud against the officers and directors of a corporation, filed a counterclaim alleging that the plaintiff Conant had slandered her. Some 17 months later she filed a pleading denominated as an "amendment to counterclaim” wherein she alleged damages arising from a battery which occurred after the complaint and slander counterclaim had been filed, and which bore no relationship to the communications which tended to injure her reputation or to the facts giving rise to the complaint.

1. Under these circumstances this "amendment to…