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BOWEN v. INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CO.

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230 S.C. 509 (1957)

96 S.E.2d 564

MAUDIE BOWEN, Appellant, v. INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

February 6, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Schofield, Esq., of Walhalla, for Appellant.

Messrs. S. Eugene Haley and Hood & Hood, of Anderson, for Respondent.

John M. Schofield, Esq., of Walhalla, for Appellant, in Reply.

February 6, 1957.

E.H. HENDERSON, Acting Associate Justice.

Only one question is involved in this case. Is it libelous per se to publish in print of a white person that she is a Negro?

The defendant is the publisher of the Anderson Daily Mail, a newspaper of wide circulation. On March 11, 1954, the paper printed a statement, under the heading "Negro News" and under the picture of a colored soldier,...

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