Scheidler v. Brochstein

GRAVES, Justice. .

The appellant sought damages of the ap>-pellees, Mr. and Mrs. Brochstein, for slander as a result of Mrs. Broehstein’s having spoken in the presence of Anna Dahlgren, another waitress therein, and Mrs. Herman Rosenberg, wife of one of the ownel-s, to the appellant in the café where she- was employed, these words:

“I want you fired from here — I don’t want you to work — You got a disease and you are going to spread it around here — and give it to my husband.”

Anna Dahlgren did not hear the words, but Mrs. Rosenberg did; there being no- other customers in the café at the time…