Wendler v. DePaul

WICKERSHAM, Judge:

Edmund Wendler, Jr. appeals from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County granting Michael DePaul’s preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer and dismissing Wendler’s complaint.

In July, 1984, Edmund Wendler, Jr., appellant herein, initiated this action by filing a complaint alleging defamation on the part of appellee Michael DePaul. Appellant’s complaint alleged that appellant and appellee worked at the Carpenter Technology Corporation plant in Reading, Pennsylvania; appellant was a laborer and appellee was employed as the superintendent of the…