DIETRICH v. PULITZER PUBLISHING COMPANY

No. 52531.

422 S.W.2d 330 (1968)

Yvonne Sue DIETRICH, Appellant, v. The PULITZER PUBLISHING COMPANY, a corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

January 8, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Steinger, Clayton, for plaintiff-appellant.

Evans & Hoemeke, Robert D. Evans, Robert B. Hoemeke, St. Louis, for respondent.


STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment in favor of defendant in her action for libel in which she sought actual and punitive damages in an amount far in excess of our minimum jurisdictional amount.

Plaintiff alleged she was libeled by two articles on March 23 and March 25, 1966, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a newspaper of general circulation, said articles in their entirety being as follows:

"$12,000 IN COINS SEIZED IN RAID...

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