COURSEY v. GREATER NILES TWP. PUB. CORP.

No. 40649.

40 Ill.2d 257 (1968)

239 N.E.2d 837

WILLIAM COURSEY, Appellee, v. THE GREATER NILES TOWNSHIP PUBLISHING CORPORATION et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied September 24, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

HOELLEN & WILLENS, of Chicago, (SHERWIN WILLENS, of counsel,) for appellants.

GENE J. SHAPIRO and EDWARD G. RASZUS, both of Chicago, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, William Coursey, a former Skokie, Illinois, patrolman, sued the Greater Niles Township Publishing Corporation and Ronald R. Moore, Jr., for allegedly libelous statements appearing in the September 17, 1964, edition of the Skokie News, a weekly newspaper owned and published by them. Summary judgment for the defendants was entered by the circuit court of Cook County...

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