18 Iowa 86 | Iowa | 1864
The defendant, in the writ of error, sued the plaintiff in said writ, before a justice of the peace, for slander, in saying of the plaintiff in such suit that she was a thief and had stolen certain property of the defendant therein, and claimed one hundred dollars damages. The defendant in that suit, for answer, first, denied each and every allegation of the petition; and second, averred that plaintiff was a married woman, and was so before and at the bringing of the suit, and lived then and now lives with her husband.
The cause was tried by a jury, and the plaintiff therein, Agatha Beck, being sworn as a witness, testified that she was a married woman and lived with her husband. Thereupon the counsel for defendant therein, Joseph Enders, moved the justice to dismiss the cause, on the ground that