Legal Opinion
Weeks v. M-P Publications, Inc.
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided October 24, 1973No. 11201PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McFADDEN, Justice.
The plaintiffs, S. N. Weeks, Walter C. Bentzinger and Elwin L. Tinker, instituted this action seeking general damages claimed to have arisen from a publication of an editorial in the North Side News, a weekly newspaper published at Jerome, Idaho. Defendant M-P Publications, Inc., is the corporate publisher of the newspaper and the two individual defendants are the publishers of the paper.
The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, or in the alternative to grant summary judgment in their favor. Their motion was supported by affidavits, one of which had attached as an…
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