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COWPER v. VANNIER

Gen. No. 10,199.

20 Ill. App.2d 499 (1959)

156 N.E.2d 761

George E. Cowper, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul H. Vannier, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

Rehearing denied March 30, 1959.

Released for publication March 30, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hutchens and Mann, of Winchester, and Hershey & Bliss, of Taylorville (Richard G. Hershey, of counsel) for defendant-appellant.

L. Allan Watt, of Winchester, for plaintiff-appellee.

JUDGE CARROLL delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action to recover damages for the publication of an alleged libel.

The cause was tried by a jury and resulted in a verdict of $6,000 for plaintiff. A motion for a new trial was denied and defendant has appealed.

Defendant edits and publishes a weekly newspaper called The Bluffs Times. The alleged libelous matter was published in said newspaper on July 25, 1956 as part of an account of a meeting...

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