Krone v. Block
Decision Date | 06 June 1910 |
Citation | 129 S.W. 43,144 Mo. App. 575 |
Parties | KRONE v. BLOCK. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; Virgil Rule, Judge.
Action by Annie G. Krone against Albert S. Block. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Reversed and remanded.
Peers & Peers and E. P. Johnson, for appellant. H. A. Yonge, for respondent.
This was an action for slander, commenced by the respondent against the appellant, Albert S. Block, in which the cause of action was stated in the petition as follows (caption omitted): The answer was a general denial. The evidence tended to support the allegations of the petition as to the words being spoken. At the conclusion of all the evidence, the defendant asked the court to give an instruction in the nature of a demurrer to the evidence which the court refused to give. Under the instructions...
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