CLINE v. BROWN

No. 7421SC808.

210 S.E.2d 446 (1974)

24 N.C. App. 209

C. G. CLINE v. Bertram Ervin BROWN, II.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Certiorari Denied February 4, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilson & Morrow by John F. Morrow, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff appellant.

Jordan, Wright, Nichols, Caffrey & Hill by William D. Caffrey and Janet L. Covey, Greensboro, for defendant appellee.


Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court February 4, 1975.

MORRIS, Judge.

Defendant Brown contends that plaintiff's action is barred by the decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686 (1964), which held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution delimit a State's power to award damages to a public official in a suit for libel based upon defamatory criticism...

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