Yearsley v. Franklin Lamp Manufacturing Co.

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The plaintiff, Helen B. Yearsley, brought this action of trespass against the defendants, alleging in her statement that they published certain false scandalous defamatory words concerning the plaintiff in an affidavit of defense filed by them in a suit theretofore brought by the plaintiff against them to recover forty dollars due her as wages earned as their employee. The words which plaintiff states are libelous are as follows: “In the course of business, defendant required plaintiff to design certain lamp shades which plaintiff refused to do all of which shades…