RYAN v. BROOKS

Nos. 79-1473, 79-1474.

634 F.2d 726 (1980)

John J. RYAN, Appellee, v. John BROOKS, Defendant, and Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., Appellant. John J. RYAN, Appellee, v. John BROOKS, Appellant, and Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whiteford S. Blakeney, Charlotte, N. C., Samuel G. Thompson, Raleigh, N. C., (Edward A. Miller, New York City, Blakeney, Alexander & Machen, Charlotte, N. C., Smith Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, Raleigh, N. C., on brief), for appellants.

Kermit D. McGinnis, Charlotte, N. C., for appellee.

Before WINTER, WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from an action for libel brought by John J. Ryan, former Vice-President and General Manager for North Carolina of Southern Bell Telephone Company. Ryan claimed that he had been libelled in a book written by defendant John Brooks and published by defendant Harper & Row in February 1976. Entitled Telephone: The First Hundred Years, the book was commissioned by AT&T as a corporate history to be...

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