Dorsett v. Adams

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant, for slander, and the only question which we need to consider is the sufficiency of the complaint. After the caption, it is as follows :

“John Adams, plaintiff, complains of Abijah Dorsett, defendant, and says, that heretofore, to wit, on the-day of-, 1871, a certain civil suit was begun, pending, and tried before one Shinn, an acting and duly commissioned and qualified justice of the peace in and for the township of Floyd, *130in the county of Putnam, and State of Indiana, wherein' Plenry Dorsett was plaintiff, and Benjamin F. Connett was…