Blaser v. Krattiger
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: John P. Kavanaugh, Judge. Department 1. The complaint is for slander. It contains two counts of defamatory language.
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From Multnomah: John P. Kavanaugh, Judge. Department 1. The complaint is for slander. It contains two counts of defamatory language. The first is as follows : “That defendant is engaged in running the Helvetia Hotel in the City of Portland, Oregon, and on or about the third day of January, 1918, while plaintiff was a guest at the defendant’s hotel, the defendant came into the men’s lounging-room, where plaintiff and numerous other men were sitting, and there and then in a loud voice made the following statement: ‘Someone has stolen $1,000 worth of my jewelry from my bedroom, and I know who it…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, C. J.
The principal assignments of error are that the court was wrong in overruling the defendant’s motion for a nonsuit and her further motion to direct the jury to return a verdict for the defendant.
As to the first charge, it appears by the plaintiff’s statement as witness in his own behalf that substantially the words set out in the complaint were uttered by the defendant in the room designated as the “lounging-room” in the Helvetia Hotel in Portland, in which room there were about twenty or twenty-five men at the time, sitting around. His testimony is as follows:
“Mrs. Krattinger came out in the…
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