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ROBBINS v. EVENING NEWS ASS'N

Calendar No. 67, Docket No. 50,508.

373 Mich. 589 (1964)

130 N.W.2d 404

ROBBINS v. EVENING NEWS ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 5, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse H. Butler, for plaintiff.

Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy (Rockwell T. Gust, Jr., and Joseph Pawl, of counsel) for defendants.

KELLY, J.

Plaintiff alleges that defendants, libeled him a few days before the 1960 general election by publishing on the editorial page of the Detroit News the following:

"Every time John D. Dingell, Democratic incumbent, gets re-elected we keep hoping he will live up to his potential for better service. Maybe, if re-elected, he will this time. In any event we cannot indorse his opponent, Robert J. Robbins, a Republican who represents the thinking of the...

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