National Life Ins. Co. of United States v. Abernathy
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Richard Evans, Judge. Action by Luella Abernathy against the National Life Insurance Company of the United States for damages for libel and slander. Judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Richard Evans, Judge. Action by Luella Abernathy against the National Life Insurance Company of the United States for damages for libel and slander. Judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals. The cause was submitted to the jury upon amended counts 2 and 6A, which are as follows: Count 2. Plaintiff claims of the defendant the further sum of $5,000, as damages for that heretofore on, to wit, the 1st day of June, 1918, the plaintiff was insured by the defendant under a certain policy wherein, among other things, the defendant agreed to pay…
1Per curiam
[1, 2] In reference to the liability of a corporation for slander uttered by its agents, there seem to be two lines of authority, .one holding that it is liable where the slander is uttered by its agent wj.tb.in the scope of his employment and in the performance of his duties in the course of transacting the business of the corporation; the rule governing liability in case of libel and of slander being regarded as the same and that it is not essential to the liability of a corporation that the slanderous words wesre spoken with its knowledge and, approval or that it ratified the act of its…
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