Brown v. First National Bank of Mason City

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• discussing a former version of this rule but 7 See, e.g., Kelley v. Tanoos, 865 N.E.2d 593, 600 (Ind. 2007); Kennedy v. Sheriff of E. Baton Rouge, 935 So. 2d 669, 682–83 (La. 2006). 15 finding it did not apply because the communication was made to the general public
• “The defense of qualified privilege does not extend to a publication to the general public.”
• challenged evidence of gossip and rumor concerning bank investigation elicited by appellant as defendant at trial
• “The qualified privilege by its very nature does not allow widespread or unrestricted communication.”
• truth of statements to be considered in the sense imputed to them by plaintiff
• qualified privilege for communications made in good faith on any subject in which communicator has an interest, right, or duty, if made to person with corresponding right or duty under proper circumstances

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