CHESAPEAKE PUB. v. WILLIAMS

No. 136, September Term, 1994.

339 Md. 285 (1995)

CHESAPEAKE PUBLISHING CORPORATION v. DAVID M. WILLIAMS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David R. Thompson (Cowdrey, Thompson & Karsten, P.A., on brief), Easton, for petitioner.

David M. Williams, Chestertown, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

In this case we must determine whether the evidence presented by Petitioner David M. Williams about an allegedly libelous newspaper article was sufficient to support a defamation judgment against Respondent Chesapeake Publishing Corporation (Chesapeake).

I.

The defamation action arose out of an acrimonious child custody dispute between Williams and his former wife, Joan B. Turner, which began in 1978. In September, 1984, Turner...

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