Maulsby v. Reifsnider
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. This action was instituted by the appellant in the Circuit Court for Carroll County, and thence removed to the Circuit Court for Washington County, where it was tried: The case is stated in the opinion of this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
This is a suit against an attorney at law for slander. The defendant pleads in bar of the action, that the alleged defamatory words set out in the declaration were spoken by him in his capacity as counsel, in the trial of a cause in a Court of justice. To this, the plaintiff replied that the words thus spoken, were not spoken in reference to said cause, and “had no reference to said action, or to any subject-matter involved in said action, or to any judicial inquiry which was going on, or being had in said action.” To this replication, the defendant demurred, and in sustaining the demurrer,…
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