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MISTROT v. TRUE DETECTIVE PUBLISHING CORPORATION

No. 72-2176 Summary Calendar.

467 F.2d 122 (1972)

Randall MISTROT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TRUE DETECTIVE PUBLISHING CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 21, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooks Taylor, Crestview, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

W. Spencer Mitchem, Pensacola, Fla., Ephraim London, Bonnie P. Winawer, New York City, for defendant-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and GOLDBERG and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from the granting of summary judgment for defendant-appellee, True Detective Publishing Corporation, in a diversity libel suit brought by plaintiff-appellant, Randall Mistrot. Appellee publishes Master Detective magazine and carried in its January, 1970 issue the alleged libel, an account of a recent double murder in Florida.1 The story was written by William T. Brannon, an experienced free-lance author who...

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