Downer v. Amalgamated Meatcutters & Butcher Workmen of North America

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

In this libel suit, summary judgment was rendered for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Plaintiff A. D. Downer was formerly secretary-treasurer of a local union affiliated with defendant Amalgamated Meat-cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (the international union). Defendant Maryland Casualty Company (the bonding company) had issued a fidelity bond covering plaintiff’s handling of funds for the local union. Plaintiff alleged that the international union made a claim on the bond falsely accusing him of misappropriating union funds and that the bonding company…