Delia v. Berkey

Melvin, J., concurs and filed a concurring opinion at page 55 infra.

*48It was the Bard who best expressed the wounds that slander does inflict. He said:

Slander,

Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue

Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath

Rides on the posting winds and doth belie

All corners of the world.1

Appellant, Gregory E. Delia, allegedly wounded by a defamation of his character by Barry R. Berkey, appellee, appeals from the ruling of Judge Jacob S. Levin of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, who granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of the appellee in the…