Cochrane v. Wittbold

This is a libel suit by a real estate saleswoman, Marilyn Cochrane, against her former employer, Wittbold & Company, and its president, Robert Wittbold, a real-estate broker. At the trial of the case in Wayne county circuit court, a jury awarded plaintiff $7,500, and the circuit judge denied a motion non obstante veredicto and entered judgment.

On appeal, defendants argue several claims of error as to which we find the first decisive, “that defendants’ charge concerning plaintiff was true, * * * that reasonable men could not differ thereon, and that the trial court should have granted…