Business & Finance: Deals & Developments

Soup Suits. Last week one A. Ransaville Frome, longtime employe of Campbell Soup Co., filed the following suits:

Against Campbell Chairman Dr. George

Morris Dorrance:

Alienation of Affections $1,000,000

False Imprisonment 1,000,000

Slander 1,000,000

Libel 1,000,000

Against Campbell President Arthur Calbraith Dorrance:

False Imprisonment $1,000,000

Against Campbell Soup Co.:

Slander & Libel $2,000,000

False Imprisonment 1,000,000

$8,000,000

Plaintiff Frome, 54, worked for the soup company from 1898 until 1928 when, according to his story, the defendants forced him out of his $40,000-a-year position as superintendent, told his wife he was mentally unsound as the result of drinking,...

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