Legal Opinion
Sowder v. Nolan
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 20, 1956No. 1803PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVER, Chief Judge.
’This was a libel action, in four counts by the appellee, a Private in the Metropolitan Police Department, based on four letters written to his superiors by the appellant. Three of the letters were sent to the Chief of Police and one to a Police Captain who was at that time in charge of appellee’s precinct. One letter charged that the appel-lee was “getting away with dishonesty” and the. others.- that he had told falsehoods in a report rendered by him on his investigation of an automobile accident in which the appellant had been involved. The jury returned a verdict for the…
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