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ZAPATA v. WOODWARD & LOTHROP

No. 2935.

180 A.2d 497 (1962)

Miguel A. ZAPATA and Isabel S. Zapata, Appellants, v. WOODWARD & LOTHROP, a body corporate, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 3, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin E. Gerel, Washington, D. C., with whom Joseph H. Koonz, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Francis L. Casey, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and MYERS, Associate Judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, sitting by designation.

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Mr. Zapata and his wife brought this suit to recover damages arising from an allegedly slanderous accusation directed to Mr. Zapata by a saleswoman while they were customers in appellee's department store. The basis of this appeal is the court's refusal to instruct the jury that the words used by the saleswoman were "slanderous per se."

Appellants went to appellee's downtown department store and purchased a portable stereophonic machine...

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