LEWIS v. ACCELERATED EXPRESS

[No. 134, September Term, 1958.]

219 Md. 252 (1959)

148 A.2d 783

LEWIS v. ACCELERATED TRANSPORT-PONY EXPRESS, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Dwyer and Edward J. Ryan, with whom was William J. Wilson on the brief, for appellant.

W. Warren Stultz and Francis H. Urner, with whom were Urner, Sweeney and Stultz on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ., and HENRY, JR., Chief Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


PRESCOTT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment n.o.v. in favor of the appellee, defendant below, after a verdict had been found by the jury for the appellant-plaintiff. The action was for slander and a verdict was returned against the appellee and its employee, who was alleged to have spoken the slanderous words. Because of errors in its instructions to the jury, the court, of its own volition, ordered that the verdicts...

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