Frank R. Casale v. Dooner Laboratories, Inc.

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment on a jury verdict in federal district court awarding Frank Casale damages against Dooner Laboratories, Inc., for fraudulent misrepresentation and libel. Jurisdiction rests on diversity of citizenship, and the law of Maryland applies. 1 We affirm that part of the judgment below based upon fraud, but we reverse the libel count because we conclude the district court should have granted Dooner’s motion for a directed verdict.

In November 1967 Casale and Eugene Dooner, president of Dooner Laboratories, held several meetings concerning the…