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GREIN v. LaPOMA

No. 34650.

54 Wn.2d 844 (1959)

340 P.2d 766

A.F. GREIN, Respondent, v. NUGENT LaPOMA et al., Appellants. WILLIAM T. HUGHES, Respondent, v. NUGENT LaPOMA et al., Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

June 25, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bassett, Davies & Roberts, for appellants.

Allen, DeGarmo & Leedy, for respondents.

WEAVER, C.J.

We have for determination on this appeal, from judgments on verdicts in consolidated slander actions, whether it is slanderous per se to orally call another a "communist." The statement proved to have been spoken is:

"`There is a bunch of Communists trying to break up the Union and deprive its members of work. I am not going to mention names, but that old S.O.B. who held and conducted that meeting at Airport Way is nothing but a Communist...

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