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SMITH v. BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE & JOURNAL

No. 09 83 194 CV.

677 S.W.2d 176 (1984)

Clyde E. SMITH, Appellant, v. BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE & JOURNAL and Linda Gilchriest, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Rehearing Denied September 19, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Pletcher, J. Donald Bowen, Houston, for appellant.

Jeff Dykes, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, for appellees.

OPINION

McNICHOLAS, Justice.

Plaintiff below, Clyde E. Smith, State District Judge, a "public figure", duly elected in Tyler and Hardin County for the past ten (10) years and so serving at the time of the publication of the article in question, appeals from an adverse summary judgment rendered in his libel action.

The article forming the basis for his libel claim was published in the Beaumont Enterprise and Journal on Sunday, October 4, 1981, under...

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