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PETTENGILL v. BOOTH NEWSPAPERS, INC.

Docket No. 77-3962.

88 Mich. App. 587 (1979)

278 N.W.2d 682

PETTENGILL v. BOOTH NEWSPAPERS, INC.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided February 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barkey & Barkey, P.C., for plaintiff.

Bodman, Longley & Dahling (by Kenneth R. Lango and Andrew J. Broder), for defendant.

Before: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and J.H. GILLIS and V.J. BRENNAN, JJ.

R.B. BURNS, P.J.

Plaintiff instituted a libel action against defendant and one John Doe, who was never served, asking for actual and exemplary damages that he allegedly suffered when an item inserted in the classified advertisement section of the Flint Journal, one of defendant's publications, referred to him by name in a scurrilous and insulting manner. It is undisputed that the item could only have been inserted by...

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