WETHERBY v. RETAIL CREDIT

[No. 359, September Term, 1963.]

235 Md. 237 (1964)

201 A.2d 344

WETHERBY, ET AL. v. RETAIL CREDIT COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Robert Miller, with whom were Miller & Miller on the brief, for the appellants.

Joseph B. Simpson, Jr., with whom were Simpson & Simpson, H. Algire McFaul and Harry W. Lerch on the brief, for the appellee.

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


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

Appellants, claiming they had been libelled by the appellee, a mercantile credit rating agency, by matter set out in reports to its customers, sued to recover damages. The jury returned a verdict for the credit agency and, in their appeal to this Court, the claimants urge that Judge Shook erred twice in her charge to the jury — first, in not instructing that since the alleged libelant had not pleaded justification...

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