Kelly v. General Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that spreading of deliberately false statements that employee in effect committed forgery constitutes extreme and outrageous conduct
• imputing to plaintiff forgery of invoices slanderous per se as charging commission of criminal offense
• “The statement that plaintiff falsified invoices was slanderous per se in that it charged plaintiff with forgery.”
• setting forth elements of intentional infliction of emotional distress claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).