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DENTON PUBLISHING COMPANY v. BOYD

No. 17058.

448 S.W.2d 145 (1969)

DENTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, Appellant, v. D. B. BOYD, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Minor & Knight, Denton, Brown, Herman, Scott, Young & Dean, and A. M. Herman and J. Shelby Sharpe, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Coleman, Whitten & Philips, and William P. Philips, Jr., Denton, for appellee.

OPINION

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment awarding damages to plaintiff D. B. Boyd against defendant Denton Publishing Company based upon a libelous article on October 11, 1967 in the Denton Record-Chronicle, a newspaper published by the defendant.

On page one of the newspaper was printed the story written by defendant's reporter assigned to cover meetings of Denton City Council. The article related to such a meeting. In the twelfth...

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