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HOOKS v. McCALL

No. 46968.

272 So.2d 925 (1973)

Tinsel HOOKS and Simplex Time Recorder Company, Defendants-Appellants, v. Curtis J. McCALL, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 5, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watkins, Pyle, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Robert H. Weaver, C. Alton Phillips, Jackson, for defendants-appellants.

James G. McIntyre, Jackson, for plaintiff-appellee.

PATTERSON, Justice:

This is an appeal by Mrs. Tinsel Hooks and Simplex Time Recorder Company from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Hinds County in a slander suit wherein Curtis McCall obtained a verdict against them for $10,000. A remittitur of $5,000 was accepted by the plaintiff and it is from this judgment that the defendants appeal.

The record reveals that Robert Carrigan, a district manager of Simplex, came to this city to ascertain the cause of the...

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