Pace v. McGrath

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

In this case, plaintiffs, citizens of the State of Delaware, bring this libel action against the defendant, a citizen of the State of Maryland. Jurisdiction is present pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332.1 Defendant has filed a motion for summary judgment. In sworn answers to interrogatories, Christine Lambert, one of the plaintiffs, included the following statement:

In the afternoon of September 1, 1971, the Wednesday preceding Labor Day, Patrick E. McGrath,2 and an un*142known photographer stormed into our restaurant and he stated quite excitedly that he had just…