TIMES PUBLISHING CO. v. HUFFSTETLER

No. 81-67.

409 So.2d 112 (1982)

TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. L.R. HUFFSTETLER, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

January 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot D'Alemberte of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, and George K. Rahdert and Joy M. Packer of Rahdert & Packer, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

A.P. Gibbs of Gibbs & McAlvanah, P.A., Dade City, for appellee.


DAUKSCH, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a defamation suit.

Appellant's newspaper, The St. Petersburg Times, had published a news article containing false and defamatory allegations against appellee, a circuit judge. The article concerned certain alleged activities of and statements by appellee and the county sheriff. The defamatory nature of the publication is not an issue for our consideration so, for that reason, we have determined it...

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