HERALD-POST PUBLISHING COMPANY v. HERVEY

No. 5095.

282 S.W.2d 410 (1955)

HERALD-POST PUBLISHING COMPANY, Appellant, v. Fred HERVEY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Denied September 28, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. E. Ward, Isaacks & Ward, R. E. Cunningham, El Paso, for appellant.

Andress, Lipscomb, Peticolas & Fisk, El Paso, for appellee.


HAMILTON, Chief Justice, and FRASER, Justice.

This is a suit for libel, by Fred Hervey, Mayor of the City of El Paso, against the Herald-Post Publishing Company, in the District Court of El Paso County, 34th Judicial District of Texas. The case was tried to a jury, which found that certain statements made in an article published in the El Paso Herald-Post, a newspaper owned by the Herald-Post Publishing Company, were not substantially true, that they were published...

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