Rodbourn v. Utica, Ithaca & Elmira Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Statements by witness, counsel or judge in judicial proceedings are absolutely privileged and cannot serve as basis for defamation action
• “A qualified privilege is one that can be lost by abuse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).