Legal Opinion
Englezos v. Newspress and Gazette Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided September 1, 1998No. WD 54143PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.
Appellant St. Joseph News-Press & Gazette appeals the jury’s verdict awarding George Englezos $20,000 in damages for defamation based on an article about Mr. Engle-zos which the News-Press published and which was later determined to have been inaccurate in large part. Mr. Englezos cross-appeals the trial court’s direction of a verdict for the News-Press on the issue of punitive damages. We find that the trial court properly submitted the actual damage issue to the jury pursuant to an instruction allowing the jury to find liability based on fault or negligence on the…
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