McCLAIN v. ANDERSON FREE PRESS

17403

232 S.C. 448 (1958)

102 S.E.2d 750

J. CLINT McCLAIN, Respondent, v. The ANDERSON FREE PRESS, a corporation, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 25, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Watkins, Vandiver & Freeman, of Anderson, for Appellant.

Messrs. Charles Welborn and G. Ross Anderson, Jr., of Anderson, and J.D. Todd, Jr., of Greenville, for Respondent.

Messrs. Watkins, Vandiver & Freeman, of Anderson, for Appellant, in Reply.


Part of the charge of J. Henry Johnson, Judge, is as follows:

Now, with reference to the third defense set up in the answer of the defendant, that is the defense commonly referred to by lawyers and judges as the defense of qualified or conditional privilege, I charge you that a publication is conditionally or qualifiedly privileged where circumstances exist or are reasonably believed by the defendant to exist, which cast on him the duty of making a communication to...

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