Andoscia v. Coady

This is an action of trespass on the case brought to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the defendants’ publication of a defamatory statement concerning the plaintiff. The defendants’ demurrer to the declaration was overruled by a justice of .the superior court, and thereafter the defendants filed two special pleas and a plea to the general issue. The case was. tried to a jury in the superior court and resulted in a verdict for the defendants, the trial justice thereafter granting the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict. After the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial was…