Washer v. Bank of America

The action herein was instituted by Edward C. Washer, formerly an employee of the Bank of America, to recover damages for libel and slander involved in the admitted publication by the bank through its personnel director and vice-president, A. Fenton, of the following statement:

“We cannot see how this institution could possibly reinstate anybody who has admittedly falsified his expense account, who has been guilty of flagrant insubordination, and who has called the inhabitants of the community in which he was working ‘yokels’ and ‘country bumpkins’, and labelled the town ‘"Siberia’.

“The next…