DENST V. GRAMLICH.

DENST et ux. versus GRAMLICH et al.
No. 118. Argued July 16, 1913. Decided September 15, 1913.
LIBEL. WORDS ACTIONABLE.
To publish in writing of a married woman that she "sent her children out of
the house so that she could entertain men callers and that her conduct in this respect was brazen and the common talk of the neighborhood," and, "that during the entire absence of her husband, for about a week, men
stayed at her house night after night," constitutes libel. LIBEL. PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION. A communication which might come within the class of those known as
privileged, is nevertheless actionable provided the one publishing the same
knew at the time that the statements therein contained were false.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit; Hon. William H. Jackson, Judge.
The facts appear in the opinion.
Felix E. Porter, for appellants, Hin'cktey and Ganson, for appellees.
THOS. E. BROWN, J. This action was begun in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit. The complaint alleged that the defendants had published certain alleged libelous statements with reference to Mrs. L. R. Denst, one of the plaintiffs. After various preliminary proceedings the case came on for trial and judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs for damages in the sum of $2,000. From this judgment the defendants appeal to this court.
It appears that the various families engaged as parties to this action lived in Commission quarters in Gorgona and were near neighbors. The plaintiffs are husband and wife and their four children seem to have been unrestrained and undisciplined. These children came to be considered a nuisance in the neighborhood. They ran the streets in the daytime and often at night. They were noisy, boisterous, and troublesome. They conceived and carried out successfully plans for the disturbance of their elders, just such schemes and devices in contravention of peace and quiet as have been conceived and perpetrated by the growing youth of all climes from time immemorial.
Three of the defendants, Mrs, J. P. Gramlich, Mrs. E. 0. Bratt, and Mrs. W. J. Donaldson prepared a letter of complainL ad-.

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