THOMAS v. FROST

No. 102.

440 P.2d 800 (1968)

79 N.M. 125

Lewis H. THOMAS, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. B.N. FROST, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

April 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Norvell, Clovis, for appellant.

Lynell G. Skarda, Clovis, for appellee.


OPINION

ARMIJO, Judge.

Lewis H. Thomas, a medical doctor, filed his complaint against B.N. Frost, publisher of a credit service publication, to recover general and punitive damages based on alleged libelous, false and defamatory matters contained in a publication published in June, 1966, and circulated to approximately seventy subscribers within a radius of some seventy miles from Clovis.

No actual or special damages were pleaded or proved. The case...

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