Legal Opinion
Finnegan v. Squire Publishers, Inc.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided February 21, 1989No. WD 40862PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANFORD, Presiding Judge.
Jeremiah Finnegan was allegedly libeled by an advertisement in the January 22, 1987 issue of The Squire’s Other Paper, which referred to him in his profession of attorney at law. Approximately fifteen months after the publication, on April 14, 1988, Finnegan brought this action in a Missouri state court against The Squire Publishers, Inc., the newspaper publishing company, for libel per se. The publishing company moved to dismiss the petition or for summary judgment on the basis that the Missouri borrowing statute, § 516.190, RSMo 1986, required application of the…
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