Vanover v. Wells

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

Marcella Vanover sued Harry Wells for slander. The court directed a verdict for the defendant. She is complaining of that, and of certain rulings on the evidence.

Pleading.

The plaintiff lived in a building belonging to defendant, and in her petition she charged that on April 27, 1934, the defendant said to her, within the hearing of divers persons, “That the police of the City of Pikeville, Ky., was making him, (defendant) get rid of all the lewd women, and that she (the plaintiff) had to move.” She also charged that he said within the…