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MARKWELL v. SYKES

Docket No. 23655.

173 Cal.App.2d 642 (1959)

343 P.2d 769

MARGARET MARKWELL, Appellant, v. RUBY SYKES, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

September 14, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brock, Fleishman & Rykoff and Robert L. Brock for Appellant.

Robert A. Cushman, Melvin B. Grover and Henry E. Kappler for Respondent.

ASHBURN, J.

Appeal from judgment of nonsuit in plaintiff's slander action. The amended complaint alleged that plaintiff conducted a rest home for aged persons in Los Angeles pursuant to license issued by the Department of Social Welfare of the County of Los Angeles; that defendant knew that said department received complaints and ordered inspections of the operation of rest homes. That on July 28, 1954, defendant, acting under an assumed name, verbally stated to Marjorie...

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