Pihl v. Morris

The plaintiff has obtained verdicts against both defendants on counts for slander and - malicious prosecution growing out of statements by the individual defendant to a police officer of Malden to the effect that the plaintiff had stolen a dish washing machine and out of a complaint for larceny of the machine made by the individual defendant against the plaintiff in the District Court in that city. The individual defendant was an officer of the corporate defendant and was in charge of its business of selling restau- ^ rant equipment. There was evidence that at the time of the alleged larceny…