Legal Opinion
Beckman v. Dunn
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 11, 1980No. 1980PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRICE, Judge:
Appellant brought an action for defamation alleging that she had been libeled in a letter written by Professor Richard S. Dunn, Chairman of the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. In a well-reasoned opinion, the Honorable Edward J. Blake granted appellees’ motion for judgment on the pleadings 1 based on his finding that the allegedly defamatory statements were incapable of defamatory meaning. We agree and affirm the order of the trial court.
To determine the propriety of awarding judgment on the pleadings, we must treat the motion as we would a preliminary…
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