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WALTERS v. SANFORD HERALD, INC.

No. 7611DC222.

228 S.E.2d 766 (1976)

Ruth WALTERS v. The SANFORD HERALD, INC.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 20, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Hoyle, Sanford, for plaintiff.

Woodrow W. Seymour, Sanford, and Lassister & Walker by Wm. C. Lassiter, Raleigh, for defendant.

MARTIN, Judge.

The crucial question in this case is whether the plaintiff, a private individual, is entitled to recover damages based upon the publication of an alleged defamatory falsehood without alleging and showing fault on the part of the defendant publisher.

In Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 347, 94 S.Ct. 2997, 3010, 41 L.Ed.2d 789, 809 (1974), the Supreme Court of the United States established the following...

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