Perry Bros. Variety Stores, Inc. v. Layton

This is an action brought by Mrs. Grace L. Layton, joined pro forma by her husband, Virgil Layton, against Perry Bros. Variety Stores, for recovery of of damages for slander. Mrs. Layton, in her petition, alleged, in substance, that on or about April 21, 1926, she went into the defendant's store in the city of Nacogdoches, Tex., for the purpose of purchasing a small article of dry goods, to wit, some dimity cloth and other small articles, and that, while she was in there, and after she had purchased the articles, and was about to leave the store, one Grady Barr, who was an employee of…