Legal Question in Personal Injury in Ohio

Slander?

I work in real estate. I work for a Realtor. I am also licensed to practice real estate. We are representing a seller, who happens to be a partner in a law firm. The seller and I have been having e-mail correspondence regarding his listing. Setting up showings for other real estate agents, etc. During this back and forth correspondence he was skirting a question I kept asking him in regards to some money he owed a cleaning person he asked us to co-ordinate for him. After several attempts to arrange a simple task of putting a check in the mail, I meant to forward an e-mail to my boss, in which I called him a name that was very unkind and probably be considered vulgar. Instead of forwarding the e-mail to my boss, I accidentally replied back to our seller. Of course, he saw my terrible words. He replied back that obviously I sent it to the wrong addressee and that it was a highly disturbing e-mail. (I agree) I sent him an e-mail apology back and I am very sincere. Does he have a slander case, or something else that he can bring against me? I'm very worried about this and I do feel terribly. Its not usually in my nature to act that way and because of many outside stressors, I reacted in a way I normally wouldn't have.


Asked on 9/23/05, 7:53 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Joseph Jacobs Jacobs & Lowder

Re: Slander?

Probably not slander...It's not illegal to call someone a name. My only concern is losing your job, not litigation, because technically no one else but him saw it. Slander requires you to lie about someone to someone else. It never got there.

Joe Jacobs

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Answered on 9/23/05, 9:34 pm


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