Rauschan v. State Compensation Insurance Fund

This is an action in tort and was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages upon two separate and distinct causes of action—the one, for the utterance by the defendant Gilbert, “as the servant and agent of the (defendant) State Compensation Insurance Fund,” of certain alleged slanderous language and words of and concerning plaintiff, and involving the statement that plaintiff was afflicted with a loathsome disease, and the second founded upon the charge that, by reason of said alleged slanderous language and words, as so uttered by said Gilbert, they having been uttered in the presence of…