COLLIER COUNTY PUBLISHING CO., INC. v. CHAPMAN

No. 74-327.

318 So.2d 492 (1975)

COLLIER COUNTY PUBLISHING CO., INC., Appellant, v. Benjamin F. CHAPMAN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll, Vega, Brown & Nichols, Naples, and Julian D. Clarkson, Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, Fort Myers, for appellant.

Charles R. Holley, Naples, for appellee.


GRIMES, Judge.

Appellant (newspaper) appeals a final judgment in a libel action entered in favor of appellee, hereinafter called plaintiff. The facts as alleged and established at trial are summarized as follows:

During February, 1973, plaintiff was the proprietor of a Kirby vacuum cleaner business in Naples. Plaintiff and the other tenants in Village Plaza shopping center paid for an advertisement in the newspaper to promote the grand opening of the center...

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