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KENNEY v. HATFIELD

Docket No. 38, Calendar No. 47,327.

351 Mich. 498 (1958)

88 N.W.2d 535

KENNEY v. HATFIELD.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied April 14, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward James Kenney, Jr., in propria persona.

Alexander, Cholette Buchanan & Conklin (Paul E. Cholette, of counsel), for defendant Hatfield.

Gore & Williams (Charles W. Gore, of counsel), for defendants Boothby, Case and Palladium Publishing Company.

EDWARDS, J.

This is a libel suit between a lawyer on one hand, and a probate judge, a newspaper and 2 executives thereof on the other.

The alleged libel was in the form of a political advertisement authored by the probate judge during a political campaign when he was running for circuit judge, and printed in the News Palladium of Benton Harbor. The advertisement was as follows:

"On my way to the court yesterday morning I had the 8 o'clock news tuned...

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