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KRAISINGER v. LIGGETT

No. 49,755

3 Kan. App. 2d 235 (1979)

592 P.2d 477

E. DEAN KRAISINGER, CARL BUCK, HAROLD KOLB, JAMES KOLB, STEVEN CROCKETT, and MIKE GODDARD, Appellants, v. BYRON T. LIGGETT, M.D., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Petition for review denied May 11, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Randall, of Turner and Boisseau, Chartered, of Great Bend, for appellants.

Patrick F. Kelly, of Patrick F. Kelly, P.A., of Wichita, for appellee.

Before FOTH, C.J., ABBOTT and MEYER, JJ.

ABBOTT, J.:

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs in a defamation case from a jury verdict which found for them but which did not award either compensatory or punitive damages to any of them.

The defendant, Byron T. Liggett, is a medical doctor who specializes in neurology, and who was employed part-time as a consultant at Larned State Hospital. While so employed, an inmate from the Kansas penal system who was exhibiting signs of paranoia and schizophrenia was...

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