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KOHN v. WEST HAWAII TODAY, INC.

No. 8239.

656 P.2d 79 (1982)

Charles W. KOHN dba Kohn's Sporting Goods, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WEST HAWAII TODAY, INC., a Nevada corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

December 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven K. Christensen, Hilo, for defendant-appellant.

Lawrence W. Cohn, Kailua-Kona (Cohn & Smith, Kailua-Kona, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RICHARDSON, C.J., and LUM, NAKAMURA, PADGETT and HAYASHI, JJ.

LUM, Justice.

Defendant-appellant West Hawaii Today, Inc. appeals from the judgment entered in favor of plaintiff-appellee Charles W. Kohn in this libel action. The principal issue on appeal is whether plaintiff produced sufficient evidence of defendant's negligence in publishing the article at issue. Finding that plaintiff did produce the required evidence at trial, we affirm.

I.

On January 31, 1978, an article appeared in West Hawaii Today,...

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