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POWELL v. JAMES NEWSPAPER, INC.

400 A.2d 362 (1979)

Beverly POWELL et al. v. JAMES NEWSPAPER, INC., et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

April 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burke, Meyer & Bates by E. James Burke (orally), Lewiston, Michael J. Gentile, Rumford, for plaintiffs.

Kurtz & Myers by Theodore H. Kurtz, South Paris (orally), James H. Kendall, Rumford, for defendants.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and POMEROY, ARCHIBALD, DELAHANTY, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.

NICHOLS, Justice.

On May 18, 1977, the Defendant, James Newspaper, Inc., published in its newspaper, the Rumford Falls Times, a letter to the editor from the Defendant, Claire Holland, accusing the Plaintiffs of nepotism in their respective roles of board member and employees of the Peru, Maine, school system. By complaint dated June 27, 1977, the Plaintiffs commenced this action, asserting they had been libeled by such publication and seeking to recover both compensatory...

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