LIBEL AND SLANDER - CHARGING A MERCHANT WITH SELLING BELOW COST AS SLANDER PER SE

Defendant charged that plaintiff, a buyer and seller of vehicle parts, had been cutting prices and reselling below cost, and that certain wholesalers had cut him off from an open account basis. In the subsequent slander suit, the lower court sustained a demurrer to the declaration because no special damages had been alleged. Held, that a charge of price cutting and reselling below cost is slander per se and actionable without an allegation of special damages. Meyerson v. Hurlbut, (App. D. C. 1938) 98 F. (2d) 232; writ of certiorari denied, (U. S. 1938) 59 S. Ct.

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