ARNO v. STEWART

Docket No. 22930.

245 Cal.App.2d 955 (1966)

54 Cal. Rptr. 392

RUSS ARNO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. DICK STEWART et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

October 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Belli, Ashe, Gerry & Ellison, Melvin M. Belli, Frederick Cone and Robert L. Lieff for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon and Harold R. McKinnon for Defendants and Respondents.


SIMS, J.

Plaintiff has appealed from an adverse judgment entered upon a verdict for defendants in an action in which he sought to recover damages for alleged slander because the defendant Stewart while conducting a television show referred to plaintiff, a paid performer on the show, as an "iron-clad singing member of the Mafia."

Plaintiff contends that the failure of the trial court to instruct the jury that the words uttered were defamatory per se constituted...

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