HERITAGE PUBLISHING CO. v. CUMMINS

Docket No. 60302.

124 Cal.App.3d 305 (1981)

177 Cal. Rptr. 277

HERITAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LAUREL MAE CUMMINS, as Executor, etc., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

October 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Caidin, Kalman, Sampson & Marpet, Stanley Caidin and Newton Kalman for Defendants and Appellants.

Gordon, Weinberg & Gordon and Arnold G. Regardie for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

COBEY, Acting P.J.

Defendants, Joseph J. Cummins and B'nai B'rith Messenger, a California corporation (hereafter Messenger), appeal from a judgment upon a jury verdict, as reduced upon the conditional denial of a motion for new trial, of $25,000 in general damages and $50,000 in punitive damages in favor of plaintiff, Heritage Publishing Company (hereafter Heritage), in a libel action between the two Jewish weekly newspapers...

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