Sterkx v. Sterkx

This is a suit in slander. At the time the slanders are alleged to have been uttered, the plaintiff was the daughter-in-law of defendant, but had abandoned her husband, and was, as. defendant thought, bringing scandal upon herself and upon' the family into which she had married, by allowing a Mr. Gilham to be too assiduous in his ■attentions to her, receiving his visits, and almost daily riding out with him in his buggy, and going to the moving picture shows with him. Defendant is one of the prominent business men of the city of Alexandria and a man of family and of considerable .wealth, an…