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HUTCHINSON v. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.

350 Mass. 188 (1966)

214 N.E.2d 57

JOHN L. HUTCHINSON vs. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 4, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis E. Dooley, Jr., for the plaintiff.

Leon F. Sargent for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

This action of tort for slander is in two counts, count 1 against New England Telephone and Telegraph Company and count 2 against Eleanor J. Doyle, a telephone operator of the company. The case arose out of an erroneous identification by Mrs. Doyle, under police questioning, of the plaintiff's voice as being the one which telephoned in a false bomb warning. The jury returned verdicts of $34,000, but the judge...

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