Scribner v. Adams

Miss Yerna M. Scribner, a trained nurse, sued J. L. Adams, secretary and treasurer, and one of the managers of the Savannah Hospital, alleging that while she was superintendent of the Savannah Hospital, the defendant, at a meeting of the board of directors of the said institution, spoke of and concerning her the following false, defamatory, derogatory, and slanderous words, *755to wit: “I believe it to be true that she (meaning your petitioner) received graft from the x-ray people (meaning the Victor X-ray Machine Company), although I can not prove it, and I make this charge because of the fact…