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Show I SUSTAINS DEMURRER j , IN A SLANDER CASE Special to The Tribune. ' OODKN", Oct. 27. Dr. J. B. Young, Bountiful phvsi.iaii, was given fifteen ; davs In which to file an amended complaint com-plaint when .Iud.se- A. W. Agee in ilie liavis countv di Uion of the Second district dis-trict court today sustained the demurrer j of the defendant, Dr. 13. L. Keslcr. also of Bountiful. Pr. Young is seekinft to recover damages In the sum of S4U.0O0 on charges of slander and libel. I Tile suit is the - outgrowth of a cer- tlficate filed hv Dr. Kesler with the state 'hoard of health, assei'ling that Thomas Fearnlev of Bountiful d:ed on December -1. trilr.," as the result of an overdose of morphine. Dr. Young had previously at- , tended Mr. Fearnlev mid he held the information in-formation 111 the certificate to have been ati attack on Ids professional ability. It was contended by Dr. Kesler in his demurrer that he did not charge Dr. Young with having administered the morphine, mor-phine, but merely that the. man's death had resulted fiom morphine poisoning. |