Lackey v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

Plaintiff brought this action against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to recover $50,000 damages for slanderous words charged to have- been spoken of him by the company’s agents with its authority.

After the suit had been pending more than six months plaintiff abandoned his declaration and filed a substitute declaration in one count. The matters of inducement alleged were these: Plaintiff was licensed to do, and was doing, the business of investigating and adjusting insurance claims in Nashville under the name of the Insurance Adjustment Bureau. By reason of his having formerly worked…