Campbell v. LoPucki

345 So.2d 860 (1977)

Earl CAMPBELL, Appellant,

v.

Lynn M. LoPUCKI, Appellee.

No. BB-498.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

May 11, 1977.

Peter Langley, III, Yankeetown, for appellant.

John M. Green, Jr., Green, Simmons, Green & Hightower, Ocala, for appellee.

BOYER, Chief Judge.

Appellant filed this appeal after his libel complaint was dismissed with prejudice by the trial judge. The issue is whether the allegations contained in a complaint drafted and signed by appellee, an attorney, are privileged.

After James Lee Donaldson was killed, apparently as a result of an automobile…