Mills v. W. T. Grant Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort against the W. T. Grant Company, a corporation conducting a retail store in Lynn. Writs dated February 3, 1916. Each declaration contained three counts, the first alleging assault, the second false imprisonment arid the third slander.
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Two actions of tort against the W. T. Grant Company, a corporation conducting a retail store in Lynn. Writs dated February 3, 1916. Each declaration contained three counts, the first alleging assault, the second false imprisonment arid the third slander. In each of the cases the third count was as follows: “The plaintiff says that on or about the fourth day of December, 1915, the agents or servants of the defendant, thereunto duly authorized and in control of the defendant’s store situated on Union Street in said Lynn, publicly, falsely and maliciously charged the plaintiff with the crime of…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
These are two actions of slander by different plaintiffs against the same defendant. f The cases were tried together. In each case the plaintiff had a verdict. The facts were in substance these: The plaintiffs went to the defendant’s store in Lynn to buy Christmas presents. After they had left the store they were followed by one Flora Lipkin employed by the defendant “ as a store detective” to “ assist in pointing out people who were a ' cause for the enormous shortage in the store’; that she was supposed to watch anybody who ' grabbed anything out of the store without paying for it’ and to…
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