Christy v. Stauffer Publications, Inc.

DENTON, Chief Justice.

Summary judgment was rendered for Stauffer Publications, Inc., and Bob Izzard, defendants below, in a suit by Vern E. Christy for libel in connection with a televised newscast.

The suit was based upon a television newscast on station KGNC at Amarillo at 10:10 p. m. on the night of August 17, 1966, relating to an armed robbery of a Safeway store in that city at approximately 5:15 p. m. that day. Bob Izzard, news director of appellee broadcasting company, read from a prepared written script substantially as follows:

“SHORTLY AFTER FIVE O’CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON, AN ARMED…