World Insurance Co. v. Peavy

Eberhardt, Judge.

While it was alleged in the petition that the persons making the allegedly slanderous statements were “duly authorized agents” of the defendant company and that they were “prosecuting and transacting the business of the [company] pursuant to its express direction and authorization and acting within the scope of authority vested in them by the [company] as its direct and authorized agents concerning the subject matter of the slander,” it was not alleged that the agents were authorized or directed to speak the very words used in committing the alleged slander.

“A corporation is…