Reliance Mfg. Co. v. Graham

Appellee brought this action in the circuit court of Marion county against appellant to recover damages for an alleged slander uttered by Joseph Detman, appel lant’s superintendent and general manager. There was a verdict and judgment in the sum of $8,000, from which appellant prosecutes this appeal.

- Appellant is a garment manufacturing company employing something like 700 women, among the employees were appellee, Mrs. Hargrove, and Mrs. Warren; the foreman of the floor on which they were engaged about their work was one Warren. There was ill feeling between Mrs. Hargrove and Mrs. Warren.…