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MIDDLEBROOKS v. CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 8368.

264 F.Supp. 373 (1967)

Larry Esco MIDDLEBROOKS, Plaintiff, v. The CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court D. South Carolina, Florence Division.

February 22, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Mozingo, III, D. Kenneth Baker, Darlington, S. C., Thomas E. Smith, Jr., Pamplico, S. C., Kenneth L. Holland, Camden, S. C., for plaintiff.

Carlisle Roberts, Roberts, Jennings & Thomas, Columbia, S. C., for defendant.

ORDER

SIMONS, District Judge.

This is an action for libel brought by plaintiff, Larry Esco Middlebrooks, against defendant, The Curtis Publishing Company, the publisher of the Saturday Evening Post. Plaintiff alleges that a short story entitled "MOONSHINE LIGHT, MOONSHINE BRIGHT" by William Price Fox, published in the March 16, 1963 edition of the Saturday Evening Post libeled him. Suit was originally instituted in the Court of Common Pleas for Darlington...

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