GRIMES, C.J.
The issue in this libel case is whether the defendant should be required to disclose the source of its information. We hold that it should.
The plaintiff was a public official at the time of the alleged libel. The plaintiff, then chief of police, claimed to have sustained a gunshot wound on April 3, 1975, while checking on a residence in Boscawen. An investigation ensued during which the defendant published several articles about the incident...
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