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LANCASTER v. DAILY BANNER-NEWS PUB. CO., INC.

No. 81-96.

622 S.W.2d 671 (1981)

Lester LANCASTER, Appellant, v. The DAILY BANNER-NEWS PUBLISHING CO., INC., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 26, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anderson, Crumpler & Bell, P.A., Magnolia, for appellant.

Woodward, Kinard & Epley, Ltd., Magnolia and Vincent Foster, Jr., Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, for appellee.

HICKMAN, Justice.

This is a defamation case. Lester Lancaster, a policeman for the City of Magnolia, Arkansas, sued the local newspaper, The Daily Banner-News, alleging that he was defamed in a series of editorials the paper ran in 1975. The newspaper filed a motion for summary judgment with affidavits setting forth the actual knowledge the writers had when the editorials were written. Lancaster countered with his affidavit, and numerous, lengthy depositions, mostly...

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