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SHORT v. NEWS-JOURNAL COMPANY

212 A.2d 718 (1965)

Clifton Stanley SHORT, Jr., Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. The NEWS-JOURNAL COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

July 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Hughes, III, Dover, for plaintiff below, appellant.

Louis J. Finger, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for defendant below, appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.

HERRMANN, Justice.

This is a libel action. The ultimate question on the appeal is whether the newspaper publication here involved was privileged.

I.

The facts are uncontroverted:

On January 11, 1963, Eugene Knoblauch, a reporter for the defendant, The News-Journal Company, made a routine check of the Wilmington office of the District Director of Internal Revenue Service (hereinafter "Director")....

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