BRYSON v. NEWS AMERICA PUBLICATIONS, INC.

No. 79712.

672 N.E.2d 1207 (1996)

174 Ill.2d 77

220 Ill.Dec. 195

Kimberly BRYSON, Appellant, v. NEWS AMERICA PUBLICATIONS, INC., et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

October 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cook, Shevlin, Ysursa, Brauer & Bartholomew, Ltd., Belleville (Harriet Homsher Hamilton, of counsel), for appellant.

Edwina Warner of Troutt, Alexander, Popit & Warner, Benton, for appellee News America Publications, Inc.

Robert Michael Drone, of Conger & Elliott, Carmi, for appellee Lucy Logsdon.


Chief Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, Kimberly Bryson, brought an action against the defendants, News America Publications, Inc., and Lucy Logsdon. The plaintiff's two-count complaint alleged that she was defamed by the publication of an article entitled Bryson, which was written by defendant Logsdon and published by defendant News America in the March 1991 edition of Seventeen magazine.

The complaint was originally...

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