Mitchell v. St. Louis Business Journal

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s order dismissing appellant’s petition for failure to state a cause of action. We affirm.

*390Appellant, Eugene Mitchell filed an action for libel against respondents, St. Louis Business Journal, Inc. and Mark Stallmann, a writer and reporter for the St. Louis Business Journal. The action arises out of an article published by respondents entitled, “Family Fight Threatens Argus.” The article concerned court action initiated for the appointment of a receiver to take control of the St. Louis Argus Publishing Company, publisher of the…