Tunnell v. Edwardsville Intelligencer, Inc.

This is a defamation suit wherein the plaintiff, Robert W. Tunnell, a licensed attorney and city attorney of Edwardsville, Illinois, brought suit against the defendant, Edwardsville Intelligencer, Inc., a daily newspaper, for publishing and circulating an allegedly libelous article on February 23,1961.

The cause was tried before a jury and on May 11, 1966, the jury returned the following verdict: “We, the jury, find in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant, and assess plaintiff’s compensatory damages in the sum of $none dollars, and the punitive damages in the sum of $35,000.00…