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APPLEYARD v. TRANSAMERICAN PRESS, INC.

No. 75-2012.

539 F.2d 1026 (1976)

George T. APPLEYARD, III, Appellee, v. TRANSAMERICAN PRESS, INC., d/b/a Overdrive, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry B. Sitton, Greensboro, N. C. (Beverly C. Moore, J. Donald Cowan, Jr., Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, Greensboro, N. C., on brief), for appellant.

Norman B. Smith, Greensboro, N. C. (Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis & James, Greensboro, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Transamerican Press, Inc. (Transamerican), defendant in this libel action, appeals from an adverse judgment awarding $10,000 compensatory damages and $5,000 punitive damages to plaintiff, George T. Appleyard, III (Appleyard). We affirm.

I.

Transamerican is the publisher of Overdrive, a nationally distributed magazine for truckers. Appleyard originally came into contact with Overdrive as part of an effort to change...

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