Patterson v. Kincade

MAUCK, PJ.

A sharp difference between the parties is disclosed as to whether the defendants were privileged as citizens in making the charges they did before the board of school examiners, whose duty it is to investigate, and in a proper case revoke, the certificates of those found unworthy to hold them. The trial court held that the defendants had no absolute privilege, such as attaches to witnesses before a grand jury, since Stephenson v McCurdy, 124 Oh St, 117, 177 NE, 204, overruled, Kintz v Harriger, 99 Oh St, 240, 124 NE, 168, 12 A.L.R., 1240, and in this the court was right. It did hold…