McCormick v. Miami Herald Pub. Co., 2497
Decision Date | 21 March 1962 |
Docket Number | No. 2497,2497 |
Citation | 139 So.2d 197 |
Parties | Almon C. McCORMICK, Appellant, v. The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Florida corporation, and John S. Knight, Appellees. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Joseph C. Kozlick, Cocoa, for appellant.
Dwight Sullivan of Scott, McCarthy, Preston, Steel & Gilleland, Miami, for appellees.
Plaintiff, Almon C. McCormick (appellant) filed his amended complaint against the defendants, The Miami Herald Publishing Company, a Florida corporation, and John S. Knight, the Editor and Publisher of the Miami Herald Publishing Company (appellees) in an action for libel. The complaint alleges neither malice nor special damages, and the plaintiff concedes that if the alleged publications are not libelous per se, then the complaint fails to state a cause of action and the judgment of the court dismissing the complaint should be sustained. The allegations with respect to the published articles are as follows:
'That on February 3, 1960, the Defendants THE MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY and JOHN S. KNIGHT, did publish of and concerning the Plaintiff on the front page of The Brevard Edition of The Miami Herald, the following words, towit:
'That on February 5, 1960, the Defendants THE MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY and JOHN S. KNIGHT, did publish of and concerning the Plaintiff, on the front page of The Brevard Edition of The Miami Herald, the following words, to-wit:
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That the said publications were false in that the salary of the Plaintiff was not picked up by the Federal Agents, at the time of said publications, or at any time prior to said publications, nor has said salary been picked up by Federal Agents to the date of the filing of this cause, but that on the contrary, the Plaintiff received his check for January and for each and every month during his tenure in office as City Councilman, in the normal and regular course of such disbursements, and that the Plaintiff has continued to the date of the filing of this Complaint to regularly receive his pay checks; that the government did not ever, and does not now, press a claim against the Plaintiff for $40,101.05 in back taxes, nor does it now claim and never has claimed that the Plaintiff has owed the sum of $40,101.05, but did on the date of said publications press a claim against the Plaintiff in the amount of $1,758.47; that there are not now, nor have there ever been, four liens filed...
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