White v. Cudahy Co.

Eberhardt, Presiding Judge.

Barbara White filed her complaint for slander against her former employer, Cudahy Company, Inc., alleging that authorized agents and servants of the defendant corporation falsely and maliciously stated that she had stolen money from it. The defendant corporation, subsequent to the taking of plaintiff’s deposition, filed its motion for summary judgment, attaching the affidavit of Ralph Smedley, plant controller and plaintiffs former supervisor, in which he stated that he had discussed with plaintiff her failure to follow established office procedure in handling funds…