Slocinski v. Radwan

1. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to prove that all three of the defendants circulated reports that he had been guilty of criminal conduct with women and girls in other places. The defendants denied using much of the language attributed to them, but they placed their chief reliance upon the defence of privilege. They claimed that most of the statements which they had made embodied information which had come to them in documentary form from sources which appeared to be reliable; that these statements were addressed in every instance to fellow members of the Holy Cross congregation, and that…