Legal Opinion
Ralph O. Brownfield v. Truman H. Landon
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 3, 1962No. 16825_1PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BASTIAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court which granted summary judgment to the defendant [ap-pellee] .
The action in this case sought damages for slander against the defendant, who was serving as Inspector General of the Air Force at the time of the alleged defamation. A brief review of the facts established beyond dispute is necessary to a decision of this case.
Sometime in May 1955 the Office of Special Investigations of the Air Force started an investigation of alleged irregular conduct on the part of certain personnel at the Middletown Air Materiel…
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