JENNINGS v. TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE CO.

Docket No. G000152.

164 Cal.App.3d 119 (1985)

210 Cal. Rptr. 485

ETHAN A. JENNINGS, JR., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

January 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Howard J. Stechel for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Harrison & Watson, Steven B. Davis and Robert Robinson for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

CROSBY, J.

The superior court granted the motion for nonsuit of the San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune and various individual defendants in a libel action, and plaintiff Ethan Jennings, Jr., appeals. (1a) We find the newspaper's allegedly defamatory descriptions of Jennings' federal tax prosecution sufficiently within the "literary license" of a newspaper reporting...

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