WALKER v. ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. 10585.

209 So.2d 806 (1968)

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

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1968.

Writ Refused June 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hargrove, Guyton, Van Hook & Ramey, Shreveport, for appellant The Associated Press.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for appellant Times Picayune Publishing Corp.

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

Before GLADNEY, AYRES, BOLIN and PRICE, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

In an opinion handed down on October 31, 1966 this Court amended a judgment rendered by the District Court in this action in favor of the plaintiff, Edwin A. Walker, and against defendants, The Associated Press and Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation, in solido, by reducing the damages awarded to the plaintiff from $2,250,000 to $75,000 with interest at the rate of 5% per annum from September 10, 1963 until paid, and as so amended, affirmed the judgment...

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