The plaintiff, John Lane, brought a libel action against the Arkansas Valley Publishing Company, publisher of The Mountain Mail; Merle Baranczyk, the newspaper's editor; and Ed Quillen, reporter and columnist. The defendants' motion for summary judgment was granted and the trial court dismissed the action. Lane appeals and we affirm.
A series of articles, most of which were satirical in tone, was...
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