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SEXTON v. THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY

Civ. No. 140-G.

133 F.Supp. 591 (1955)

Frank SEXTON, Plaintiff, v. THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Florida, Gainesville Division.

September 17, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gray, Waldo Chandler & Mills, Gainesville, Fla., for plaintiff.

Boggs & Gibbs, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendant.

DE VANE, Chief Judge.

This is a suit for libel in which plaintiff charges that defendant "falsely, wickedly and maliciously published and circulated" throughout the United States, Florida and in Alachua County, Florida, an issue of Everybody's Digest containing an article allegedly libelous of plaintiff.

The pleadings show that Everybody's Digest is published by W. J. Smith Publishing Company, a corporation that does no business in the State of Florida; that...

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