Legal Opinion
Deshotel v. Thistlethwaite
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 31, 1960No. 44116PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAWTHORNE, Justice.
The appeal in this case is from a judgment of the district court awarding petitioner $5,000 in damages under Article 2315 of the Louisiana Civil Code for an alleged defamation.
C. Kenneth Deshotel, an attorney, brought this suit against John R. Thistlethwaite, editor and publisher of the Daily World, a St. Landry Parish newspaper with a circulation of about 9,000, for $90,000 in damages because of allegedly defamatory remarks made by Thistlethwaite in a television appearance in Lake Charles on, July 18, 1956, a résumé of Thistlethwaite’s speech which appeared in his Daily…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Madison v. BoltonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1958
- Kennedy v. Item Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1948
- Flanagan v. Nicholson Pub. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1915
- Levert v. Daily States Pub. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1909
- Martin v. MarkleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1942
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- Trahan v. RittermanLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1979
- Pack v. WiseLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1963
- Cormier v. BlakeLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1967
- Sas Jaworsky v. PadfieldLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1968
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