Legal Opinion
Hay v. Independent Newspapers, Inc.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided May 2, 1984No. 83-215PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
450 So.2d 293 (1984)
Leroy HAY, Appellant,
v.
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS, INC., and Phillip A. Pettus, Appellees.
No. 83-215.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
May 2, 1984.
David C. Holloman of Holloman & Lambert, Arcadia, for appellant.
W. Cort Frohlich of Wotitzky, Wotitzky, Mandell, Batsel, Wilkins & Frohlich, Punta Gorda, for appellees.
SCHOONOVER, Judge.
This is an appeal from a final judgment dismissing a libel action with prejudice. We affirm.
Appellant, Leroy Hay, filed an action alleging that appellees, Independent Newspapers, Inc., publisher of the Arcadian, a newspaper in…
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