GUTTER v. DOW JONES, INC.

No. 85-1084.

22 Ohio St. 3d 286 (1986)

GUTTER, APPELLEE, v. DOW JONES, INC., APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided March 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Day Co., L.P.A., David L. Day and Dale D. Cook, for appellee.

Bricker & Eckler, Marshall L. Lerner, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, Robert D. Sack, Robert P. LoBue and Craig Stewart, for appellant.


CELEBREZZE, C.J.

The narrow question of substantive law presented in this appeal is whether a general circulation newspaper is liable to one of its subscribers or readers for a non-defamatory negligent misrepresentation of fact in a news article relied on by the reader in choosing a securities investment which results in a financial loss because of a market decline. We recognize that many of the landmark cases concerning the rights guaranteed the press by the First...

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