Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiff appeals from the trial court's ruling at the close of all the evidence in a common law slander case that the proof was insufficient to permit a jury instruction on punitive damages. The alleged slander in this case was spoken by one lawyer about another lawyer in a crowded courtroom. The trial court found that defendant Solber's words to plaintiff Mullen were slander per se. But the court refused...
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