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CARR v. WATKINS

[No. 164, September Term, 1961.]

227 Md. 578 (1962)

177 A.2d 841

CARR v. WATKINS ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 20, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin M. Feldman for the appellant.

Douglas H. Moore, Jr., Assistant County Attorney for Montgomery County, with whom was Alfred H. Carter, County Attorney, on the brief, for Kenneth Watkins and Lloyd Whalen, two of the appellees.

Kathryn H. Baldwin, Attorney, United States Department of Justice, with whom were William H. Orrick, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Joseph D. Tydings, United States Attorney, and Alan S. Rosenthal, Attorney, Department of Justice, on the brief, for William H. Gould, the other appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

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

The appellant Carr sued Gould, an officer in the security division of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Silver Spring, and Watkins and Whalen, officers of the Montgomery County Police Department, because they had transmitted to his employer information as to charges that had been brought against him years ago and his employer had consequently discharged him. The amended declaration is in five counts, sounding respectively...

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