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CHEEK v. J.B.G. PROPERTIES, INC.

No. 814, September Term, 1974.

28 Md. App. 29 (1975)

344 A.2d 180

AUBREY A. CHEEK ET AL. v. J.B.G. PROPERTIES, INC., ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided September 8, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Winkler and Samuel M. Shapiro for appellants, cross-appellees.

William F. Abell, Jr. and Joseph M. Quirk, with whom were Heeney, McAuliffe, Rowan & Abell on the brief, for appellees, cross-appellants.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and GILBERT and LOWE, JJ.

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

The moral disdain one feels for the quick tempered who abuse another with vile or abusive language has not always been equated by the courts with potential civil liability. When Christ said "whoever says to his brother `Raca,' shall be liable to the Sanhedrin and whoever says, `Thou fool!', shall be liable to the fire of Gehenna,"1 His opinion was...

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