Legal Opinion
Monnin v. Wood
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided July 17, 1974No. 1244PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTIN, Judge.
Defendants appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff compensatory damages for alleged libel per se. We reverse.
Defendants submitted five contentions for review. We reverse because defendants were entitled to a directed verdict. The written letter involved was not libelous per se.
A. Facts.
Plaintiff was a volunteer teacher of the fifth grade class in the St. Bernadette Religious Education Program, also known as Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (C.C. D.). Defendants Wood, husband and wife, were the lay coordinators of the program and defendant Father Conway was the…
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