Vickers v. Stoneman

This is an action on the case to recover damages for verbal slander. The declaration contains no matters of inducement, and no averment of collateral circumstances, but proceeds in two counts to set out the ■cause of action, as follows:

“ On February 20, A. D. 1887, at Waverly, in the county of Van Burén aforesaid, in a certain discourse which the said defendant then and there had with the said plaintiff, in the presence and hearing of divers good and worthy persons, did speak, publish, and declare, to, *420of, and concerning the said plaintiff these false, scandalous, and defamatory words, to wit: