Colonial Stores Inc. v. Sasser

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The petition in the instant case does not seek, as contended by counsel for the defendant, to set forth a cause of action based upon the utterance of false and defamatory words by the agent of a corporation. The only words alleged to have been spoken by the employed of the defendant after he had followed the plaintiff to the street in front of the store were in the form of a question as to what it was she put in her pocket in the store. We doubt that this question, by itself, would have been a sufficient allegation of tortious misconduct to sustain the…