Kruegel v. Cockrell Gray

This is an action for slander and libel brought by Herman Kruegel, plaintiff, against J. E. Cockrell and Edward Gray, and Curtis Hancock, as attorneys at law, and E. B. Muse, as district judge, to recover damages for malicious utterances of Curtis Hancock made by said Hancock during 'the trial of a cause in the Forty-Fourth judicial district court in Dallas county, before E. B. Muse, judge presiding. Collusion and conspiracy between all the defendants was alleged. Defendants pleaded absolute privilege in making such utterance, the same being in the process of a judicial trial, and interposed…