Zapata v. Woodward & Lothrop

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Mr. Zapata and his wife brought this suit to recover damages arising from an allegedly slanderous accusation directed to Mr. Zapata by a saleswoman while they were customers in appellee’s department store. The basis of this appeal is the court’s refusal to instruct the jury that the words used by the saleswoman were “slanderous per se.”

Appellants went to appellee’s downtown department store and purchased a portable stereophonic machine from Mr. Sinker, a salesman in the television and high fidelity department. Mr. Sinker then escorted appellants to the furniture…