Bowker v. Bry-Block Mercantile Co.

Mr. Special Justice Gholson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit for slander brought by the plaintiff, Mrs. W. P. Bowker, against the Bry-Block Mercantile Company, a corporation, and I. D. Block, who was its vice president, in the circuit court of Shelby county. At the conclusion of the testimony of the plaintiff a motion for a directed verdict was sustained by the circuit judge, from which an appeal was prayed and granted to the court of civil appeals. That court reversed and remanded the case, and it is now here upon petition for certiorari on the part of the defendants below.

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