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MORRISSETTE v. COWETTE

No. 82-046.

122 N.H. 731 (1982)

GEORGE H. MORRISSETTE v. DONALD B. COWETTE & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

August 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Barnes, of Concord, by brief and orally, for the plaintiff.

Brown & Nixon P.A., of Manchester (David L. Nixon and Edward Stewart, Jr., on the brief, and Mr. Stewart orally), for the defendants.

DOUGLAS, J.

The plaintiff, George Morrissette, contends that the Superior Court (Flynn, J.) erred in dismissing his libel action. We uphold the trial court.

The plaintiff alleges that he was libeled during the summer of 1980, while he was a candidate for the New Hampshire State Senate, when the president of the defendant New Hampshire State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, sent a letter to union members urging them to support the plaintiff's opponent, the incumbent...

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