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WALKER v. ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. 10585.

191 So.2d 727 (1966)

Edwin A. WALKER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The ASSOCIATED PRESS and the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 29, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hargrove, Guyton, Van Hook & Ramey, Shreveport, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, Wells, Thomas & Wells, Jackson, Miss., for appellants.

Wilkinson, Lewis, Woods & Carmody, Shreveport, Watts, Looney, Nichols & Johnson, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellee.

Before HARDY, GLADNEY, and AYRES, JJ.

GLADNEY, Judge.

This case is on appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of Edwin A. Walker, as plaintiff, and against the Associated Press and the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation, as defendants, in an action for libel.1

The plaintiff alleges the Associated Press, through its reporter, Van Savell, sent news items and releases to the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation which contained false, malicious, defamatory and libelous...

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