Cotton v. Fisheries Products Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN for slander, beard on demurrer to complaint, before Stacy, J., at August Term, 1918, of Bbunswick. There was judgment overruling tbe demurrer, • and defendants appealed. •
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.-
Tbe complaint, in effect, alleged tbat just prior to tbe slanderous utterance plaintiff bad been tbe general manager of defendant company, oil and fertilizer business, and bad done bis duty honestly and faithfully; tbat having left tbe employment of tbe company, be was in tbe act of having bis household goods moved to tbe dock, with a purpose of being placed on tbe boat, when tbe bearers were stopped by direction of defendant Harry B. Tberian, present manager, acting under orders of bis codefendant, tbe president, tbe goods opened and searched, accompanied by tbe statement, in tbe…
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