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PEAGLER v. PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS, INC.

No. 12691-PR.

114 Ariz. 309 (1977)

560 P.2d 1216

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.

Supreme Court of Arizona, In Banc.

February 4, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

STRUCKMEYER, Vice Chief Justice.

Appellants, Dodge City Motors, Inc. and Julian Peagler, brought this suit against Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., Eugene C. Pulliam, Albert Sitter and J. Edward Murray for damages resulting from an allegedly libelous article in a Phoenix newspaper, The Arizona Republic. The Superior Court first summarily entered a judgment dismissing the suit as to Murray, then ordered the suit by Julian Peagler dismissed, and, finally, on December 20, 1972...

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