Stice v. Beacon Newspaper Corporation

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

This was an action to recover damages for alleged libel published in defendant’s daily newspaper, The Wichita Beacon.

Plaintiff alleged that from January 24, 1957, to February 4, 1957, the defendant newspaper printed, published and circulated to its 105,000 subscribers certain articles with accompanying headlines and pictures of and concerning him which were libelous, defamatory, malicious and untrue. It was alleged that said articles falsely, maliciously and wrongfully impute that plaintiff, an attorney at law and a judge of the court of…