Talbot v. Johnson Newspaper Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
On May 7, 1982, plaintiff Leon Talbot (hereinafter Talbot), the basketball and tennis coach at St. Lawrence University, hosted a backyard barbeque at his home. While driving home, a member of the basketball team struck and killed Sarah Ferguson, a college student who was jogging on a roadway.1 On October 31, 1984, a lengthy article was published in the Watertown Daily Times, published by defendant Johnson Newspaper Corporation, which quoted extensively from a letter dated October 5, 1984 written to the chairman of the University Board of Trustees by defendant Stuart P. MacLaren, whose…
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