LAYMAN v. READERS DIGEST ASSOCIATION

No. 40330.

412 P.2d 192 (1965)

A. H. (Herb) LAYMAN, Plaintiff in Error, v. READERS DIGEST ASSOCIATION, Inc., a foreign corporation, Select Magazines, Inc., a foreign corporation, and Robert Glenn White and J. I. Everest, a co-partnership doing business under the fictitious name of Oklahoma News Company, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied March 22, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rinehart, Rinehart & Rinehart, by Jim A. Rinehart, El Reno, Houston, Davidson & Klein, by R.L. Davidson, Jr., Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.

Martin, Logan, Moyers, Martin & Conway, by Garrett Logan, Tulsa, Charles E. Daniel, Drumright, for defendants in error Readers Digest Ass'n, Inc., and Select Magazines, Inc.

H. Dale Cook, Oklahoma City, Rinehart, Morrison & Cook, Oklahoma City, of counsel, for defendants in error Robert Glenn White and J.I. Everest.


JACKSON, Vice Chief Justice.

In the trial court, A.H. (Herb) Layman sued Readers Digest Association, Inc., Select Magazines, Inc., and Robert Glenn White and J.I. Everest, a co-partnership doing business as the Oklahoma News Company, to recover damages for the publication of an allegedly libelous article in the July, 1960, issue of Readers Digest Magazine entitled "Our Great Big Highway Bungle". The first named defendant...

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