BUCK v. SAVAGE

No. 13051.

323 S.W.2d 363 (1959)

Wallace A. BUCK et al., Appellants, v. Eldon SAVAGE, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

On Filing of Remittitur March 19, 1959.

Rehearings Denied April 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dyche, Wheat & Thornton, and E. H. Thornton, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

J. Curtiss Brown and W. James Kronzer, Houston, and Hill, Brown, Kronzer & Abraham, Houston, of counsel, for appellee.


WOODRUFF, Justice.

Appellants, Wallace A. Buck and Lincoln Laboratories, Inc., prosecute this appeal from the judgment of the District Court wherein damages aggregating $85,000 were assessed against them in favor of appellee in a libel and slander suit, of which amount $60,000 was awarded as actual damages and $25,000 as exemplary damages. The cause being tried to a jury, judgment was entered pursuant to the verdict returned in answer to 41 Special Issues.

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