Layman v. Readers Digest Association

JACKSON, Vice Chief Justice.

In the trial court, A. H. (Herb) Layman sued Readers Digest Association, Inc., Select Magazines, Inc., and Robert Glenn White and J. I. Everest, a co-partnership doing business as the Oklahoma News Company, to recover damages for the publication of an allegedly libelous article in the July, 1960, issue of Readers Digest Magazine entitled “Our Great Big Highway Bungle”. The first named defendant is the publisher of the magazine; the other defendants are distributors. Plaintiff alleged that the article was false and malicious as to him; that he was therein identified…