AMMAH J.
The plaintiff by her writ of summons is claiming ¢200,000 damages against the defendant for slander. The writ of summons is accompanied by a statement of claim elaborating her claim. The defendant is a son of the landlord of the plaintiff. It would appear that the defendant was at the material time not living in the house where the plaintiff was a tenant, but some of his relatives were living there with the plaintiff upstairs; the defendant was however visiting the house.
The plaintiff's case is that on 18 March 1985 at about 6.30 am she was giving her child tea when the defendant knocked at her door. She opened the door and came out. The defendant who was at the entrance asked her what nonsense she had said the previous day to his niece, Ama Dankwa. He then abused her as a bad woman with a bad character as that of her late father who stole and died after D.D.T. had been administered to him. The defendant continued to abuse her as a prostitute and that the child she claimed or …