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PEAGLER v. PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS, INC.

No. 1 CA-CIV 2426.

26 Ariz. App. 274 (1976)

547 P.2d 1074

Julian PEAGLER and Dodge City Motors, Inc., an Arizona Corporation, Appellants, v. PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS, INC., an Arizona Corporation, Eugene C. Pulliam, and Albert J. Sitter, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department B.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1976.

Review Granted June 2, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingsworth & Beshears by Harry J. Cavanagh and Richard McC. Shannon, Phoenix, for appellants.

Snell & Wilmer by Arthur P. Greenfield, Phoenix, for appellees.

OPINION

HAIRE, Chief Judge, Division 1.

On this appeal from a directed verdict for the defendants in a defamation action, the Court is faced with somewhat confusing problems created by changing concepts emanating from the United States Supreme Court's relatively recent broadening of first amendment freedom of speech rights as applied in defamation actions.

One of the plaintiff-appellants is Dodge City Motors, Inc., a corporation which, at the time...

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