GIBSON v. MALONEY

No. J-145.

214 So.2d 89 (1968)

B. Roy GIBSON, Jr., and St. Joseph Telephone and Telegraph Company, a Corporation under the Laws of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. Joseph A. MALONEY, d/b/a the Apalachicola Times, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

Rehearing Denied October 7, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Starry & Thompson, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Truett & Watkins, Tallahassee, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The appellants seek review of a final judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding plaintiff-appellee compensatory and punitive damages in a libel and slander action. Damages forming the basis of this action were sustained, so found the jury, when the individual defendant made a speech before a civic club in Port St. Joe, and the corporate defendant printed and distributed copies of the speech to all of its telephone subscribers.

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