Buck v. Savage

WOODRUFF, Justice.

Appellants, Wallace A. Buck ■ and Lincoln Laboratories, Inc., prosecute this appeal from the judgment of the District ■ Court wherein damages aggregating $85,-000 were assessed against them in favor of appellee in a libel and slander suit, of which amount $60,000 was awarded as actual damages and $25,000 as exemplary damages. The cause being tried to a jury, judgment was entered pursuant to the verdict returned in answer- to 41 Special Issues.

The facts showed that before the institution of this suit appellant, Lincoln Laboratories, Inc., for a number of years had been…