O'Brien v. B. L. M. Bates Corp.

Finch, J.:

■ The action is in slander. The defendant is a corporation and is the proprietor and manager of the Hotel Belmont. The plaintiff Martin is a barber employed in a barber shop leased from the defendant, in the hotel, and the plaintiff Anna O’Brien is a manicurist employed in the same barber shop. According to the plaintiffs’ testimony, they were summoned to the room of a guest of the hotel to do some work, arid while so employed, the defendant’s assistant manager entered and ejected the plaintiffs, applying slanderous epithets to them in the presence of divers persons. The jury has…