Kipp v. Kueker

This is an action by which Roy Frank Kipp seeks to recover damages allegedly sustained by him as the result of the publication of certain defamatory statements by the defendants.

The original complaint filed by the plaintiff against these and one other defendant did not proceed entirely on claims of defamation. Styled by the Superior Court judge who considered it as "murky,” it was found to "intermingle vague claims for relief for malicious prosecution, slander and conspiracy----” All of the thirteen original defendants moved to dismiss the claims asserted in the complaint, most (if not all)…