Irwin v. Murphy

PARKER, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment made upon an order sustaining, without leave to amend, a demurrer to plaintiff’s amended complaint in an action to recover damages for libel and slander.

We summarize the complaint. It is alleged that in the year 1929 defendant, together with eighteen other persons, constituted the grand jury in and for the city and county of San Francisco, regularly drawn, impaneled and sworn; that on or about September 26, 1930, the said persons, acting under order of official authority as a grand jury, did make and publish openly and publicly, and cause…