Ex Parte Ward (In Re Bosch v Ward) [1908] ZAHCORC 9 (19 March 1908)

Practice. -Pleading. -Exception to declaration. -Slander.  Defamatory interpretation.

Where a declaration alleging slander was excepted to on the ground that there was no cause of action, in that the words complained of were not per se slanderous, and could not be interpreted to bear the meaning placed upon them in the innuendo, Held, that as the words were not absolutely incapable of a defamatory interpretation, and as they might by evidence be shown to have been applied to the plaintiff, the exception must be overruled.