Legal Opinion
Jennings v. Cronin
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 12, 1978No. 376PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPAETH, Judge:
This is an appeal from an order dismissing preliminary objections to a complaint. 1 The complaint is in libel; appel-lee is plaintiff, and appellant is defendant.
On August 24, 1976, appellant, who was Coroner of Wayne County, testified before a Select Committee of the Pennsylvania Senate, which was investigating deaths of patients at the Farview State Hospital in Wayne County. Before taking questions from the committee members, appellant had his counsel read a prepared statement in which appellant mentioned appellee, who was a State Police officer assigned to the Criminal…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Ginsburg v. HalpernSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1955
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3Cited by27 opinions
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- In Re: Ibp Confidential Business Documents Litigation. Hughes A. Bagley v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
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