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Lopez vs. Court of Appeals

EUGENIO LOPEZ, publisher and owner of the "MANILA CHRONICLE" and JUAN T. GATBONTON, petitioners, vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS and FIDEL G. CRUZ, respondents.

G.R. No. L-26549 | 1970-07-31

D E C I S I O N 


FERNANDO, J: 

There is an element of novelty in this appeal by certiorari from a decision of respondent Court of Appeals holding petitioners, the then publisher and editor of This Week Magazine, liable in damages to the tune of eleven thousand pesos arising from the publication of a picture of respondent, Fidel G. Cruz, as being responsible for the hoax of the year. The absence of any connection either fanciful or remote with such event is admitted. The view is pressed by petitioners, invoking a liberal construction of the implications of press freedom, owning up to the mistake, unfortunately not discovered until...