John J. Ryan v. John Brooks, and Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., John J. Ryan v. John Brooks, and Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises from an action for libel brought by John J. Ryan, former Vice-President and General Manager for North Carolina of Southern Bell Telephone Company. Ryan claimed that he had been libelled in a book written by defendant John Brooks and published by defendant Harper & Row in February 1976. Entitled Telephone: The First Hundred Years, the book was commissioned by AT&T as a corporate history to be published during the centennial year of the telephone’s existence. Only one sentence of the 345-page volume mentioned Ryan; it purported to…
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