Cook v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

Plaintiff brought a damage action for slander. Defendants appealed from a judgment for plaintiff entered pursuant to a jury verdict.

Plaintiff was an employe of the defendant Safeway Stores, Inc., at its Eoseburg store. He was discharged from employment and shortly thereafter the defendant Coates, who was the manager of the Eoseburg store, told three other Safeway employes that plaintiff was discharged because he had stolen from the company.

Defendants first contend that the court erred in allowing the following testimony over their objection:

“Q What economic effect, what was your economic…