HOLLMAN v. BRADY

No. 14809.

233 F.2d 877 (1956)

Myrtle HOLLMAN, Appellant, v. Catherine BRADY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Butcher, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellant.

McCutcheon & Nesbett, Buell A. Nesbett, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and ORR and LEMMON, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska awarding appellee $1,500 for slander. Appellant contends that her statement was not slanderous per se, that the District Court erred in not instructing the jury that the slanderous statement must have proximately caused appellant's damage, and that irregularities in the selection of a jury constituted reversible error.

The uncontradicted testimony is that...

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