Ousdal

Plaintiff sued for damages for an alleged libel on the part of the defendant. An amended demurrer to plaintiff’s second amended complaint was sustained without leave to amend and thereafter judgment was entered in favor of the defendant for his costs. From this judgment plaintiff has appealed upon a typewritten judgment-roll.

The second amended complaint (which will hereafter be referred to as the complaint) alleges that the plaintiff had for a number of years prior thereto been a duly and regularly licensed physician under regulations of the state board of medical examiners and that he was also licensed by that board to practice as a drugless practitioner in this state; that both licenses were duly recorded in the office of the county clerk of Santa Barbara County; and that he had for some years past been engaged in the practice of his profession as a physician and surgeon and also as a drug-less practitioner in said county. It was then alleged that during the month of July, 1924, one Alice V. Bradley was employed as a teacher in the Teachers’ College at Santa Barbara, and that within one year prior to said date the plaintiff at the request of said Alice V. Bradley had given a…