Ponticelli v. Mine Safety Appliance Co.

Each of these three cases is here on the plaintiff's appeal from a judgment which entered following the direction of a verdict for the defendants by a superior court justice. Two of the cases, one for slander and the other for libel, are against the corporate defendant; the third, against the individual defendant, is for slander. The plaintiff has expressly waived her appeal in the libel action, and therefore we consider only the two slander actions.

Viewing the evidence and the reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to plaintiff and without regard to any question of…