STEWART v. GING

No. 6362.

327 P.2d 333 (1958)

64 N.M. 270

James J. STEWART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Herman GING, Owen Gragg, John W. Porter, Ben Sturdivant, Paul H. Tripp, Edwin W. Parker, Robert J. Smith and Joe B. Scrimshire, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

July 2, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nordhaus & Moses, Fred Trechel, Albuquerque, for appellant.

Atwood & Malone, Roswell, Neal, Neumann & Neal, Carlsbad, for appellees.


LUJAN, Chief Justice.

This is a libel action based upon alleged defamatory statements contained in a report by a Commission on Investigation of the Oklahoma Annual Conference of the Methodist Church. The report, or a summary thereof, was published in the Oklahoma-New Mexico Methodist, the official publication of the Methodist Church in the Oklahoma-New Mexico area.

Appellant, plaintiff below, alleges that prior to May of 1956 he was a regular ordained traveling...

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