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DUNCAN v. PEARSON

No. 5029.

135 F.2d 146 (1943)

DUNCAN v. PEARSON.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 12, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank G. Tompkins, of Columbia, S. C. (Tompkins & Tompkins, of Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Donald Russell, of Spartanburg, S. C. (Pinckney L. Cain, of Columbia, S. C., Daniel & Russell, of Spartanburg, S. C., and Thomas, Cain & Black, of Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

Daniel T. Duncan brought a civil action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina against Drew Pearson, individually and as one of the co-partners writing and publishing under the trade name of "The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round", for an alleged libelous article published of and concerning Duncan on November 25, 1938. The article published by Pearson, for which Duncan seeks damages in the sum of $200,000...

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