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SUN NEWS v. STEVENS

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278 S.C. 26 (1982)

292 S.E.2d 30

Carroll D. PADGETT, Jr., Respondent, The SUN NEWS and The Sun Publishing Company, Appellants. James P. STEVENS, Jr., Respondent, v. The SUN NEWS and The Sun Publishing Company, Appellants. (two cases).

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 19, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCutcheon & McCutcheon of Conway, Robinson, McFadden, Moore & Pope, Columbia, and Harold B. Wahl, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellants.

J.M. Long, Jr., Myrtle Beach, for respondents.

May 19, 1982.

LEWIS, Chief Justice:

This appeal is taken from judgments entered upon consolidated jury trial of two actions for defamation. In substantially identical complaints, the respondents, Carroll D. Padgett, Jr., and James P. Stevens, Jr., alleged that three articles published by the appellant newspaper between December 1976 and March 1977, were libelous in various particulars. Neither of these are public officials or public figures. Actual and punitive...

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