Glass

Defendants Gulf Oil Corporation, a property owner, and the Frouge Corporation, the developer of its codefendants’ property, have ap pealed from a judgment which awarded the plaintiffs Glass, neighboring property owners, general and exemplary damages aggregating $11,500 for slander of title, together with attorneys’ fees and costs, and which enjoined and restrained the defendants from trespassing on plaintiffs’ property and from publishing any information which would indicate that plaintiffs’ land was other than private property, The judgment is predicated upon plaintiffs’ claim that the defendants falsely represented that plaintiffs’ private road and adjacent property would be available as and would provide an access road to a vast housing development planned by the defendants on 2,100 acres lying to the west of the plaintiffs’ property.

The defendants contend (I) that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the charge of slander of title because it fails to show (a) that the defendants made any false statements concerning the plaintiffs’ property, (b) that the defendants disparaged plaintiffs’ title, (c) that the plaintiffs’ title encompassed the interest which is the…