Brown v. McCann

Mrs. B. B. Brown brought an action for slander against X. Y. McCann in the city court of Jesup, alleging that the defendant, about March, 1925, injured her in her profession as a teacher in the public schools by making to members of the school board and other persons named a false report that she was afflicted with the contagious disease commonly known as tuberculosis. She alleged that as a result of such report she was summarily dismissed from the faculty of the Jesup public school, and was further damaged in that she was thereafter unable to obtain any other position as teacher. The…