HAYWARD v. WATSONVILLE REGISTER-PAJARONIAN & SUN

Docket No. 24283.

265 Cal.App.2d 255 (1968)

71 Cal. Rptr. 295

ARTHUR LESLIE HAYWARD, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WATSONVILLE REGISTER-PAJARONIAN AND SUN et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

August 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Grossberg for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Wyckoff, Parker, Boyle & Pope, James A. Wyckoff and Bruce A. Richardson for Defendants and Respondents.


AGEE, J.

This libel action against a Watsonville newspaper and its editor is based upon an article published on April 30, 1964, the day after plaintiff was arrested on a charge of grand theft, of which he was subsequently acquitted by a jury. Plaintiff does not allege malice.

Defendants obtained a summary judgment based upon the privilege or immunity given by statute to a public journal to publish a fair and...

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