Markwell v. Sykes

Appeal from judgment of nonsuit in plaintiff’s slander action. The amended complaint alleged that plaintiff conducted a rest home for aged persons in Los Angeles pursuant to license issued by the Department of Social Welfare of the County of Los Angeles; that defendant knew that said department received complaints and ordered inspections of the operation of rest homes. That on July 28, 1954, defendant, acting under an assumed name, verbally stated to Marjorie Skinner, one of the deputies in said department: “That, ‘plaintiff used hypodermic needles and injected narcotics into the bodies of…