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WALKER v. ASSOCIATED PRESS

No. 48512.

206 So.2d 489 (1968)

251 La. 772

Edwin A. WALKER v. ASSOCIATED PRESS and Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 19, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashton Phelps, Blake West, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for defendant-petitioner.

Wilkinson, Lewis, Woods & Carmody, W. Scott Wilkinson, Shreveport, Watts, Looney, Nichols & Johnson, Clyde J. Watts, Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff-respondent.

SANDERS, Justice.

Edwin A. Walker, a former Major General in the United States Army, brought this action for libel against the Associated Press and the Times Picayune Publishing Corporation. After a jury trial, the court rendered judgment against the defendants, in solido, in the sum of two million, two hundred fifty thousand ($2,250,000.00) dollars. The defendants appealed.

The Court of Appeal reduced the judgment to seventy-five thousand ($75,000.00) and...

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