Maynard v. Fireman's Fund Insurance
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The plaintiff appealed, and assigned that the Court below erred in sustaining the demurrer upon the second ground stated. The defendant appealed, and assigned that the Court below erred in overruling the demurrer upon the first ground stated. The other facts are sufficiently stated in the Opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Currey, C. J.:
The plaintiff sues the defendant, a corporation, for composing, writing, entering upon its books and publishing, of and concerning the plaintiff, who had immediately prior to the time been in the defendant’s employment, the following words : “ This company, for good and sufficient reasons, has resolved to dismiss D. D. Maynard from its sei’vice.” The plaintiff alleged these words to be a false, scandalous, malicious and defamatory libel, written and published wrongfully and maliciously, by which the defendant intended to have it understood and believed that the…
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