The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-24
SUIT FOR SANDER
HAS BEEN FILED
Statements Made at Church
Open Forum Into Court
Today.
ASKING 5000 DAMAGES
DR.. kelman. Defendant, is Surprised
That "Member Of Church Should
Assume Interrogatory APP
piled to Him.

| Suit for SANDER in which Judgment
for $4,000 is asked. has been filed In
the Office OF the clerk of the district
court by the Alvo Laboratories
against Dr. Sarah r. Kelman. The
suit grows out of statements alleged
Ito have been made in the open forum
at the First congregational church
last Sunday night, during discus.
sion of social diseases. Besides the
SANDER allegations, the plaintiffs
claim $500 damages for the alleged
Opening of letter belonging to them.
| DR.. Kelman has explained the let
ter charge in her statement given
below, and says that her attorneys
will look after the Islander charges.
She says that the question she pro
posed was purely hypothetical, ana
that She sis surprised that member
of the church should assume that the
interrogatory applied to him.
The plaintiff in the suit is the AlVo
Laboratories particularly described
as partnership composed OF Burton
Wilkinson, A. o. Waugh. F. A. s..
PENDANT, DR.. Sarah r. Kelman, is the
iof healths laboratory in KeoEuk. The
petition follows the general lines
forecast in the original notice which
was served Thursday. 1t is in two
counts and is as follows:
Count One.
The plaintiffs are manufacture
ing and selling a preparation for
the treat ment of venereal dis
eases in the city of Keokuk, Lee
county, Iowa, and are the only
firm in the city in that business.
1.-The defendant is in charge Of
a laboratory in the said city of
Keokuk.
AT a public meeting, on the
18th day of January, A. D. 1920,
held in the First Congregational
church in said city of Keokuk,
Lee county, Iowa, the defendant
in public discussion about quack
doctors and the makers OF prepa-
rations which are fraudulently
claimed to cure syphilis publicly
made In substance the following
statement:
1--WE have a little corporation
of that kind right here in Keo-
kuk. They put up their stuff in
bottles and 1t is taken internally.
They say that five bottles viii
cure syphilis and admit that it
only costs them seventeen cents
a bottle They charge one hun
dred dollars for the medicine and
offer to give any doctor fifty dol
lars who will recommend it, but
Of course no doctor in keokuk
will. They (the plaintiffs) say
that 1T will not hurt anyone" and
it will not help them either
Said statement was made by
the defendant wilfully, deliber-
ately and maliciously for the pur-
pose OF injuring the business of
the plaintiffs.
said statement charges the
plaintiffs with the commission OF
crime.
said statement was false and
malicious in that it stated that
the plaintiffs were practicing as
unlicensed physicians; that the
plaintiffs are a corporation; that
the plaintiffs preparation cost
only seventeen cents per bottle to
manufac ture; that the plaintiffs
offer any doctor fifty dollars to
recommend it; that the plaintiffs
preparation is not Of medicinal
value.
That plaintiffs have been dam
aged by the said statement made
by the defendant in the sum of
five thousand dollars.
Wherefore the plaintiffs de-
mand judgment aga inst the de- =
PENDANT in the sum of five thsu-
sand dollars, and the costs Of this
action.
Count