Blakeman v. Blakeman

Action for slander. The plaintiff was a married woman, the wife of Frank Blakeman, defendant’s son. Four separate causes of action are set up in the complaint, each consisting of words published by defendant of and concerning plaintiff, either while pregnant or after the birth of her child, charging her, as is claimed, with the crime of adultery, by alleging that some one else, and not her husband, was the father of her child. We have carefully compared the words charged and the words proved in each cause of action, and find no material variance between the pleading and the proof. We think…