McCORMICK v. Specter

Opinion by

Spaulding, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of September 15, 1970, in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, granting summary judgment in favor of appellee Arlen Specter as District Attorney of Philadelphia County, against appellants Thomas J. McCormick and Paul GK Taylor individually and as partners trading as McCormick, Taylor Associates. Appellants instituted an action in trespass against appellee, charging him with libel and slander by reason of oral and recorded statements he had made in public on September 17, 1969. Appellee’s defense was that since he made the…