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WINKEL v. HANKINS

No. 5290.

585 S.W.2d 889 (1979)

Erwin C. WINKEL, II, M.D., et al., Appellants, v. John W. HANKINS, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

Rehearing Denied August 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. Lowry and Joel B. McCarty, Jr., Lowry, Pruett & McCarty, Lawrence T. Newman, Nathan, Nathan & Newman Co., Houston, for appellants.

David M. Freedman, Houston, W. James Kronzer and Robert B. Ballard, Kronzer, Abraham & Watkins, Houston, for appellee.

RALEIGH BROWN, Justice.

This is a slander case. John Hankins sued Norma Harris and Erwin C. Winkel for actual and exemplary damages because of their allegedly slanderous statements falsely accusing him of stealing $10,000 from the hospital where he was an employee and in which defendants had a financial interest. The jury found Harris and Winkel each had made statements that Hankins had stolen $10,000, that the statements were false and were made with malice. The...

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