Abrahamsen v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

This appeal challenges the propriety of a summary judgment of dismissal of Abrahamsen’s claims as plaintiff, alleging that the defendants conspired with each other to falsely charge and accuse plaintiff of the theft of daily addendum lists to the telephone directories of the corporate defendant, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. All of the defendants denied the allegation.

It is apparent from the record of a hearing on defendants’ motion to dismiss the answers to interrogatories by plaintiff that plaintiffs claim involved a claim of libel and conspiracy to libel him through the…