GENTRY v. WAGONER COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY

No. 38640.

351 P.2d 715 (1960)

Virginia GENTRY, Plaintiff in Error, v. WAGONER COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY, an Oklahoma corporation, and Sam Whitson, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied May 3, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown & Garrison, Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.

Anthis & Gotcher, Muskogee, for defendants in error.


BERRY, Justice.

The parties who occupy the same relative position here as in the trial court will herein be referred to as they appeared in said court.

In this action plaintiffs seeks to recover damages from defendants because of an alleged libelous article which appeared in the Coweta Times Star. The article reads as follows:

"We was notified by our attorney, Paul Gotcher, that the $22,800.00 suit filed by L.C. Gentry against this newspaper has been...

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