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WESTBY v. MADISON NEWSPAPERS, INC.

No. 75-771.

81 Wis.2d 1 (1977)

259 N.W.2d 691

WESTBY, and husband, Respondents, v. MADISON NEWSPAPERS, INC., and others, Appellants: DORGAN, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided November 30, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

There were joint briefs by Bradway A. Liddle, Jr., and Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field of Madison, for appellant Madison Newspapers, Inc.; and Earl Munson, Jr., and La Follette, Sinykin, Anderson & Abrahamson of Madison, for appellants The Capital Times Company, Miles McMillin, Elliott Maraniss, David Zweifel and Bruce Fritz, with oral argument by Mr. Munson.

For respondents there was a brief by Thomas J. Rostad and Smith & Schultz of Madison, and oral argument by Mr. Rostad.

BEILFUSS, C. J.

On February 15, 1975, an article "How Many Spies in Madison" was published in The Capital Times, a daily newspaper of general circulation. The article was accompanied by a photograph of one of the plaintiffs looking out a door toward an adjacent apartment that she was allegedly spying on.

The plaintiffs-respondents are Patricia A. Westby, a laborer and housewife, and William Westby her husband, a railroad engineer. The defendants-appellants...

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