Legal Opinion
Dyer v. MacDougall
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 31, 1952No. 17, Docket 22357PublishedCited by 364 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This case comes up on appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment summarily dismissing the third and fourth counts of a complaint for libel and slander. Two questions arise: (1), whether we have jurisdiction over the appeal; (2), whether the defendants showed that there was no “genuine issue” to try within the meaning of Rule 56(c) Fed.Rules Civ.Proc. 28 U.S.C. We may start with the amended complaint, which was filed on November 24, 1950. It was in four counts, of which the first alleged that the defendant, Albert E. MacDougall, had said of the plaintiff at a directors’…
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