DELLA-DONNA v. YARDLEY

No. 4-86-0603.

512 So.2d 294 (1987)

Alphonse DELLA-DONNA, Appellant, v. Catherine YARDLEY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan W. Lubell of Lubell & Lubell, New York City, and Sturrup & Della-Donna, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Melanie G. May of Bunnell, Denman & Woulfe, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


STONE, Judge.

The plaintiff, an attorney, brought a libel action against the author of a letter written to the editor of the Fort Lauderdale News. The trial court entered a final summary judgment for the defendant.

The following letter was written in response to numerous articles on the subject of the "Nova trust", which the defendant had construed as "anti-Nova university":

Makes A Travesty I have no ties with Nova University other than...

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