Merritt v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

This is an action for damages for slander. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff bought a sack of flour at one of the defendant’s stores, and when he left with the flour a clerk of the defendant followed him to another store and there accused him of stealing the flour by publicly uttering the words “you got to come and show the clerk you bought the sack of flour from,” meaning thereby that he had stolen the flour, which caused him much embarrassment, humiliation, worry, and injury, to his damage in the sum of $3,000.00. The…