Timmons v. THE NEWS & PRESS, INC.

Taylor, Justice.

This appeal is from an Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Darlington County sustaining respondent’s demurrer to appellant’s amended complaint upon the grounds that the article published in respondent’s newspaper was “not libelous per se nor is- it so by innuendo!’

The amended complaint, omitting formal parts, is as follows:

“2. That on or about April 25, 1957, plaintiff was engaged in a business as a merchant in Darlington, South Carolina, and was of good name, fame and credit as such.

“3. That on said day the defendant maliciously, wilfully, and recklessly intended to and did…