84 Cal. 177 | Cal. | 1890
Action for slander; verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $450; defendant appeals from the judgment upon the judgment roll alone. The only points made by the appellant relate to the sufficiency of the complaint, to which he demurred, upon the grounds that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and is ambiguous, uncertain-, and unintelligible.
There is supposed to be still some relic of the exaggerated nicety with which pleadings in actions of libel and slander had formerly to be constructed, and it is invoked in this case. The words alleged in the complaint to have been slanderously spoken by defendant of plaintiff are these: “You.thief,” “youswindler,” “you scoundrel,”
We see nothing in the points that the complaint was ambiguous, uncertain, or unintelligible.
Judgment affirmed.
Sharpstein, J., and Fox, J., concurred.