141 Iowa 596 | Iowa | 1909
The plaintiff brought her action in two counts. In the first, with proper innuendo, she charges the publication by defendant of the following alleged slanderous language: “Mrs. Arnold is too intimate with the hired man.” In the second count she charges the publication of the following slanderous language: “Mrs. Arnold has been sleeping with the hired man.” The first of these alleged slanders is charged to have been uttered on the 12th of June, 1906, and the second in the latter part of August or 1st of September of the same year. At the time of the publication of the alleged slanders the plaintiff was a married woman, living with her husband, who had in his employ a hired man. • Plaintiff alleges in her petition that by the slanderous words set forth in each count the defendant intended to charge the plaintiff with having committed the .crime of adultery with the said hired man. On the trial the plaintiff produced witnesses who testified in support of each count. Two witnesses testified that the defendant uttered in their presence the exact words set forth in the first count of the petition, and one witness testified that the defendant uttered in his presence the words charged in the second count of the petition, and on the date charged. A fourth witness testified that he worked
We find no error in the record. The judgment below must he affirmed.