ROBB, Associate Justice.
Appeal by the defendant from a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the District in an action for libel. Plaintiff's wife had filed a bill for divorce in the court below, in which the following averments were made:
"III. That the defendant in August, 1917, brutally assaulted this plaintiff, striking her in the face, blacking her eye, and breaking her glasses; that at another time, in August, 1917, defendant...
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