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Action for slander. Plaintiff had the verdict of a jury, with damages assessed at three hundred dollars. Defendant appeals from the judgment on bill of exceptions. The pleadings are verified. A general demurrer to the complaint was overruled.

The alleged slanderous words were spoken in the- French language to Frenchmen and are set forth in French with their *60 meaning in English, to wit: “If he [meaning the plaintiff] continues to sell [meaning steal] my hogs, I will send him [meaning plaintiff] where he was another time [meaning the state’s prison of the state of California]. I have had many other occasions to have had him arrested”; and it is alleged that the words bo spoken in the French language were understood by the persons to whom spoken as above translated and explained in English. ' The answer does not specifically deny using the language concerning the selling of the hogs, nor that the language was intended to convey the meaning as alleged, nor that the words were understood as translated; but it is denied that any of the words were falsely or maliciously spoken or were understood to mean “'that defendant had had many occasions to have had plaintiff arrested.”…