McDaniel v. Crescent Motors, Inc.

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit for slander. It is based upon a conversation at defendant’s place of business in which there were present Press Adams, shown to be defendant’s general manager, and F. W. Walker, the traffic manager, Joe Johnson, the local manager representing defendant, and H. E. Mason. The conversation was with reference to plaintiff, who was a local bus driver for defendant. The court declined to permit evidence of that conversation as the basis for slander, upon the ground that it was not a publication, and evidence of no other publication was offered.

At that time defendant’s…