McDONALD, Judge:
On Wednesday, June 14, 1978, the appellee/cross-appellant, Homer F. Marcum, owner and publisher of the weekly newspaper, "The Martin Countian," printed a story on the front page of that paper concerning an alleged fight between Helen Horn, a Martin County jail matron, and the appellant/cross-appellee, Willie Kirk, the Martin County Judge. The headline read, "Powder Keg! Jailer's wife, judge, clerk duke it out in fist-fight. . . ." Since the publication...
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