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KENNEDY v. CANNON

[No. 307, September Term, 1961.]

229 Md. 92 (1962)

182 A.2d 54

KENNEDY v. CANNON

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 13, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick L. Rogan, Jr. and John B. Robbins, with whom were Robins & Robins and Richardson, Pollitt & Rogan on the brief, for appellant.

John W.T. Webb, with whom were Walter C. Anderson, W. Edgar Porter, Webb & Travers, and C. Awdry Thompson on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and PRESCOTT, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.

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

This appeal questions whether the trial court erred in directing a verdict for the defendant, an attorney, in a suit for slander on the grounds that the allegedly slanderous statement was privileged as part of the defendant's duty as counsel to his client, and that no malice on the part of the defendant had been shown.

The appellee, Robert Powell Cannon (defendant below...

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