DELLA-DONNA v. GORE NEWSPAPER CO.

Nos. 80-789, 80-1045.

390 So.2d 87 (1980)

Alphonse DELLA-DONNA, Appellant, v. GORE NEWSPAPER COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation Authorized to Do Business in the State of Florida; and Hamilton C. Forman, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied December 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frates, Jacobs & Farrar and Terry S. Bienstock, Kreeger & Kreeger, Miami, for appellant.

Joe N. Unger, Pomeroy, Betts, Pomeroy, Moses & Pomeroy, Ferrero, Middlebrooks & Strickland, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, C.J., SCHWARTZ, J., and LILES, WOODIE A. (Ret.), Associate Judge.


SCHWARTZ, Judge.

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