Schnabel v. Meredith

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

This appeal is from a judgment of compulsory non-suit in a trespass action for damages for the defendant’s alleged libel of the plaintiff and the invasion of his privacy. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, the defendant moved for a compulsory nonsuit which the trial judge granted and which the court en banc later refused to take off. Judgment was accordingly entered, and the plaintiff appealed. The pertinent facts are not in dispute.

The defendant, Meredith, is the owner and publisher of the Quakertown Free Press, a weekly newspaper of general…