Skillern v. Brookshire

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This was an action for slander by appellant, A. B. Skillern, against appellees Bryan J. *545Brookshire and Everett B. McKay, doing business as partners under the firm name of Brookshire Bros. The case was tried to a jury and the judgment appealed from was upon a verdict instructed in favor of appellees. Appellant charged that appellee Bryan Brookshire addressed to him the following defamatory language: “You got that sugar here and you know it; because Bailey does not handle that kind of sugar.” The facts are these: Appellees .were operating a grocery store in the city of…