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SUIT FOR SLANDER.Ten Thimiand l»oi»ara Damages Wanted by .Hr*. Urunimetl.A suit for damages for Blander occupied the attention of Judge Van Dyke and a jury yesterday. The parties to the suit were S. J. Brummett and Mrs. E. A. Brummett, plaintiffs, and James H. W. Patterson, defendant. The plaintiffs allege that Mr. Patterson between the 1st of March and 1st of May, .1888, in speaking of the plaintiff said: “Mother lost some silverware and clothing and Mrs. Brummett took them. Another count In the complaint charges that defendant said, “Mrs. Brummett stole silverware and clothing from mother’s trunk.” The plaintiffs alleged that theBe accusations were false and defamatory and had damaged them in the sum of $10,000. In the trial yesterday, the witness for the prosecution testified to the utterances, and Mr. and Mrs. Brummett said that they had heard that the remarks had been made from two persons, and that they considered that they had been injured thereby. Mr. Patterson, on the witness siand, denied that he had ever said that Mrs. Brummett had ever taken the things. Iiis mother had gone to the Brummett’s house to stay, while his children was sick, and she had reported to him that while there some clothingand siverware had disappeared. He had told two bosom friends of the loss and had done so, expecting that they would assist in discovering the articles. He had informe the Chief of Police of the loss, but he had never accused Mrs. Brummett of having anything to do with the disappearance of the articles.The jury to which the case was given after the argument was concluded, returned a verdict in favor of the defendant.
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Los Angeles Daily Herald
Los Angeles, California, US
Fri, Mar 01, 1889
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