HAWKINS v. BAY COUNTY PUBLISHERS, INC.

No. D-430.

148 So.2d 561 (1963)

Wallace H. HAWKINS, Appellant, v. BAY COUNTY PUBLISHERS, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

January 17, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Harris, of Davenport, Johnston, Harris & Urquhart, Panama City, for appellant.

Charles S. Isler, Jr., of Isler, Welch & Jones, Panama City, for appellee.


WIGGINTON, Judge.

Plaintiff has appealed from a final judgment entered upon an order granting defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint. The propriety of the order forms the principal point on appeal.

Plaintiff filed his complaint on August 30, 1961, seeking damages suffered as a result of an alleged libelous article published by defendant on August 31, 1959, in its newspaper of general circulation in Bay County.

To the complaint defendant filed...

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