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AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. SHELL

6 Div. 958.

90 So.2d 719 (1956)

AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. et al. v. Claude SHELL.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 29, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noble J. Russell, Decatur, and Deramus, Fitts, Johnston & Mullins, Birmingham, for appellants.

Hare, Wynn & Newell, Birmingham, and Ling & Bains, Bessemer, for appellee.

STAKELY, Justice.

This is a suit for libel by Claude Shell (appellee) against the American Life Insurance Company and its President, Thomas W. Wert (appellants), for publishing the following alleged defamatory matter by writing it in a letter to the plaintiff and sending a copy thereof to a Mr. Forsyth, a business associate of the plaintiff. The letter is as follows.

"American Life Insurance Company "Birmingham...

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