Legal Opinion
Olsen v. Liberty Group Missouri Holdings, Inc.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided February 5, 2008No. WD 67791PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL M. SPINDEN, Judge.
Justin Olsen and Robert Singleton appeal the circuit court’s judgment in which it directed a verdict for Liberty Group Missouri Holdings, Inc., in Olsen’s and Singleton’s lawsuit against Liberty Group for defamation. This lawsuit emanated from an article published during January 2001 by a newspaper owned by Liberty Group, the Lake Sun Leader. The article castigated Continental Inn, a Lake Ozark motel owned by Olsen and Singleton, by reporting that Wally Schrock, Lake Ozark’s city planner, had said that the motel “was completely unfit for human occupancy” and “totally…
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