Post v. Mendel

POPOVICH, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in response to a complaint in trespass filed by the plaintiff-appellant (Barton L. Post, Esquire). We affirm in part and quash in part.

We commence our discussion with the appellant’s filing of a 2-count amended complaint against the defendant-appellee (M. Mark Mendel, Esquire). The first count sounded in libel and the second in slander, and in each the plaintiff sought in excess of $20,000 for compensatory damages as well as an equal amount in punitive or exemplary damages.

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