Pion v. Caron
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort for slander, the declarations alleging that the words, which accused the plaintiff of stealing, were spoken by the defendant in the first action, it being alleged in the second action that in doing so he acted as the servant and agent of the defendant in the second action. Writs dated June 20, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
These are actions of tort for slander. The defendants are husband and wife. The latter was the proprietor of a department store and her husband was employed by her therein as assistant manager, charged with the géneral duty of looking after the store and the stock. On the night of April 9, 1919, she told him to discharge the plaintiff, who was employed *110as a clerk in the store. On the following morning when he discharged the plaintiff, there was evidence that he charged her with theft in substantially the words set forth in the declaration, spoken in French, in the presence of several persons…
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