Dopsovic v. Stork Restaurant, Inc.

Defendant Stork Restaurant, Inc., moves for dismissal of the complaint for legal insufficiency. Defendant’s employee is charged with slander per se in that he said of the plaintiff “ This is the man who walked out of here about two months ago without paying his $11.00 bill”; and “You were sitting right at that end of the bar with two women ”; and “ your *869wife was not one of them ”. Plaintiff insists that he has thus been charged with punishable crime which alone in this context would sustain a complaint in slander per se. The words do not charge plaintiff with punishable crime (Moore v.…