Where a plaintiff is not named in a first publication but is incontrovertibly identified in a subsequent publication by the same publisher, the correctness of the identification is so predominant a matter in assessing reasonableness that a jury finding that identification was not reasonable will be set aside. The imputation that a person operated a business engaged in fraud is conveyed where that is the whole burden of the article, and a jury finding to the contrary is beyond the range of decisions reasonably available.
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