Opinion
Gen. No. 40,767. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed February 23, 1940
LIBEL AND SLANDER, § 49 — sufficiency of evidence. In action for slander and false imprisonment, where plaintiff was discharged as a maid by defendants, who allegedly called her a thief, there was no publication of slander by utterances of husband and wife in presence of each other, nor was there a detention where plaintiff charged that defendants forcibly ejected her from their home, lower court properly directed verdict for defendants.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from Superior Court of Cook county; Hon. W.F. BORDERS, presiding.
Affirmed and costs of additional abstract necessarily filed by defendants taxed against plaintiff. Heard in second division, first district, at June term, 1939.
L.A. Sherwin, for appellant;
Wm. A. Sherwin, of Counsel;
Harris F. Williams and Robert C. Baumgartner, appellees.
"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed February 23, 1940.