Grist v. the Upjohn Company

Employing a 5-eount declaration, plaintiff in the first 4 counts separately sued defendants White, Schwenn, Juday, and McGoff for slander. The fifth count alleges that all 5 defendants (The Upjohn Company being the fifth) conspired together to employ the claimed slanderous statements of the named individual defendants for the purpose of “destroying plaintiff’s good name.”

Defendant Upjohn, being a corporation, moved to strike and for dismissal in its favor, assigning no allegation in the declaration that the alleged slander ous statements had been authorized or ratified by it. The court…