Fields v. Stauffer Publications, Inc.

Abbott, J.:

This is an appeal from an order dismissing plaintiff’s cause of action with prejudice for his failure to answer a certified question.

This action was commenced by the plaintiff, John H. Fields, on August 6, 1975, the day following the publication of an article in The Kansas City Kansan, a newspaper owned by the defendant, Stauffer Publications, Inc. The article was entitled “Bid May Violate Ethics.” The general tenor of the article was that the law firm of Carson, Fields, Kugler & Boal, over the signature of John H. Fields, had submitted an unsolicited proposal to handle all the…