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ROY v. MONITOR-PATRIOT CO.

No. 5780.

109 N.H. 441 (1969)

ROSELLE A. ROY, Ex'x v. MONITOR-PATRIOT CO. & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided June 30, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bois, Laflamme & Kalinski and McLane, Carleton, Graf, Greene & Brown (Mr. Stanley M. Brown orally), for the plaintiff.

Devine, Millimet, McDonough, Stahl & Branch and Robert A. Backus (Mr. Joseph A. Millimet orally), for the defendants.

GRIMES, J.

This action for libel was tried before Morris, J. and jury resulting in verdicts against each defendant in the amount of $10,000. Alphonse Roy died after the trial and his executrix has appeared.

The action arose out of the publication on September 10, 1960, in the Concord Daily Monitor and New Hampshire Patriot of Drew Pearson's syndicated column "D. C. Merry-Go-Round" which referred to Alphonse Roy who was running in the Democratic primary...

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