Patrick v. Thomas

BLACKBIRD, Vice Chief Justice.

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, a previously discharged employee of a bakery operated by the defendant in error, General Baking Company, instituted this action against said Company, and its manager, C. P. Thomas, as defendants, to recover damages against them on account of his alleged libel and/or defamation in a certain letter written by Thomas concerning the represented ground for plaintiff’s said discharge.

*251Over plaintiff’s objection, the trial court sustained defendants’ demurrer to his amended petition, and, upon his giving notice of…