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Rodak v. Cohen

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Feb 23, 1940
304 Ill. App. 257 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

Opinion

Gen. No. 40,767. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed February 23, 1940

LIBEL AND SLANDER, § 49sufficiency 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"Not to be published in full."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.


Summaries of

Rodak v. Cohen

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
Feb 23, 1940
304 Ill. App. 257 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
Case details for

Rodak v. Cohen

Case Details

Full title:Marie Rodak, Appellant, v. Harry B. Cohen and Edith Cohen, Appellees

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: Feb 23, 1940

Citations

304 Ill. App. 257 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
26 N.E.2d 174