104 Ky. 695 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1898
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant, W. T. Gains, brought this action in the Henry Circuit Court' against appellee, Aetna Insurance Company, for damages for libel. A demurrer entered to the petition was sustained, and the petition dismissed", and plaintiff appeals.
The petition, after charging that appellee is a corporation, and authorized to sue and be sued, alleges that in 1895 the plaintiff (appellant) instituted suit on a certain policy of insurance for the loss of tobacco, and that in that action the defendant (appellee) filed an answer on the 11th day of May, 1895, “in which it made the following false and malicious allegation of and con