Arthur W. Newbury v. Harold Robert Love

Appellee, discharged from Government employment, consulted an attorney in an effort to obtain reinstatement. The attorney telephoned the appellant, the Government personnel officer involved, and discussed the case with him while appellee listened on an extension. In the course of the conversation, appellant said that appellee "had been fired on charges and that the charges were that [appellee] had taken papers out of the files at Jeffersonville, Indiana, Quartermaster Depot and given them to Senator Capehart without authority. * * * And that he had been found guilty of that by the Civil…