MANLEY v. GREENSBORO NEWS COMPANY

No. 675.

85 S.E.2d 672 (1955)

241 N.C. 455

W. A. MANLEY v. GREENSBORO NEWS COMPANY and L. R. Russell.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 4, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. L. Alston, Jr., George A. Younce, Greensboro, and James Spence, Lillington, for plaintiff, appellant.

Brooks, McLendon, Brim & Holderness, Greensboro, for defendant, Greensboro News Co.

Hoyle & Hoyle, Greensboro, for defendant, Russell.


PARKER, Justice.

Plaintiff contends that he has alleged two causes of action, one for the recovery of actual damages for the publication of an alleged libelous news story in the Greensboro Daily News of 18 June 1952 as the result of an alleged conspiracy between the Greensboro News Company and L. R. Russell, and two for the recovery of punitive damages for the publication of the same news story as the result of the same alleged conspiracy. The allegations of the two...

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