Panhandle Publishing Co. v. Fitzjarrald

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is a libel suit filed by appellee, J. O. Fitzjarrald, against appellant, Panhandle Publishing Company, Incorporated, to recover actual damages in the sum of $25,000 and exemplary damages in the sum of $10,-000, because of the publication by appellant in its newspaper, the Amarillo Times, of several alleged libelous articles concerning appellee as a citizen and a public official. He was County Attorney of Hall County at the time of the publications. Appellee alleged, in substance, that the articles com*637plained of were published with the intent to injure him by…