COCHRAN v. PIEDMONT PUB. CO. INC.

No. 8221SC580.

302 S.E.2d 903 (1983)

Ed COCHRAN v. PIEDMONT PUBLISHING COMPANY INC., an affiliate of Media General, Inc.; and Joe Goodman, and Ray Downey-Laskowitz, Individually, and in their respective capacities as the Publisher, City Editor, Managing Editor, and Photographer of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harbinson, Harbinson & Parker by Joel C. Harbinson and Kimberly T. Harbinson, Taylorsville, for plaintiff-appellant.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by Charles F. Vance, Jr., W. Andrew Copenhaver and M. Ann Anderson, Winston-Salem, for defendants-appellees.


EAGLES, Judge.

The lower court's ruling left for trial the issue of whether plaintiff is entitled to compensatory damages for libel. The sole issue presented on this appeal is whether the trial court properly entered partial summary judgment in favor of defendant on plaintiff's claim for punitive damages. The record in this case indicates a factual dispute as to the content of the verbal exchange between the persons in the photograph and the defendants' photographer...

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