JC Penney Co., Inc. v. Cox

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, from a judgment in favor of the appellee against the appellant in the sum of $2,000.

This suit upon which the judgment was awarded was based upon allegations by the appellee to the effect that the assistant manager of the appellant’s store in Hat-tiesburg, while acting under such employment and within the scope of his authority, did falsely, publicly, and maliciously accuse the appellee of having stolen from the appellant corporation a jar of deodorant or some other similar article; that the appellee was subject to false…