Costas v. Florence Printing Co.

Moss, Justice.

Mike Costas, the respondent herein, brought this action against Florence Printing Company, Inc., the appellant herein, the publisher of the “Florence Morning News”, a daily newspaper, seeking the recovery of actual and punitive damages by reason of its publication on August 18, 1959, of an alleged libelous article concerning him.

The appellant made a motion to make more definite and certain parts of the said complaint and to strike other portions thereof. When the motion came on to be heard before the Honorable William T. McGowan, Jr., Judge of “The Civil Court of Florence”, the…