Elmore v. . R. R.

STACY, C. J., dissenting; VARSER, J., not having heard this case, did not take part in the decision. The plaintiff who had been an employee for 29 years of defendant company, as flagman, baggage master, freight conductor and finally as a passenger conductor, brought this suit against defendant company for slander.

The first cause of action is as follows: "That on or about 2 October, 1923, the defendant company, through C. M. Cobb, its superintendent, unlawfully and maliciously said and published of and concerning the plaintiff in the presence of one C. M. Starke, and others, the following…