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BURGESS v. REFORMER PUB. CORP.

No. 84-059.

508 A.2d 1359 (1986)

John S. BURGESS v. REFORMER PUBLISHING CORPORATION & George Carvill.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

February 28, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin H. Amidon, Jr., Herbert Ogden, Jr., and Amy S. FitzGerald of counsel, of Langrock Sperry Parker & Wool, Burlington, for plaintiff-appellant.

LuAnn Van Zeeland, of Dinse, Erdmann & Clapp, Burlington, for defendants-appellees.

Before HILL, PECK and HAYES, JJ., and BARNEY, C.J. (Ret.), and KEYSER, J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.

HILL, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellant, John S. Burgess, appeals an order of the superior court granting summary judgment on plaintiff's libel action in favor of defendants-appellees, Reformer Publishing Corporation and reporter George Carvill. We believe that the trial court erred in ruling, as a matter of law, that plaintiff was a "public official" at the time of the alleged libel. We also believe that the trial court erroneously...

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