LANDMARK COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. MACIONE

Record No. 821320.

334 S.E.2d 587 (1985)

LANDMARK COMMUNICATIONS, INC., et al. v. Jack F. MACIONE.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad M. Shumadine, Norfolk (Elizabeth Hoyes Esinhart, Willcox, Savage, Dickson, Hollis & Eley, P.C., Norfolk, on briefs), for appellants.

Richard W. Whittemore, Virginia Beach (Moody E. Stallings, Jr., Hanson, Stallings & Richardson, Virginia Beach, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


RUSSELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding compensatory damages for slander to a private individual. The defamatory statement involved no matters of public concern. We reverse because of the plaintiff's failure to prove damages.

Jack F. Macione was a naval officer on active duty. He owned, with his wife, a corporation called "Forth Dimension Design, and Decor, Inc.," which primarily rendered custom commercial interior design services, but...

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