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FIRST INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH OF ARAB v. SOUTHERLAND

78-475.

373 So.2d 647 (1979)

FIRST INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH OF ARAB et al. v. Fred SOUTHERLAND.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 27, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Jetton of Jetton & Ogden, Guntersville, for appellants.

Clyde D. Baker, Guntersville, for appellee.

BEATTY, Justice.

This is an appeal under Rule 5, ARAP, from an interlocutory order of the Circuit Court of Marshall County declaring that certain radio broadcasts, if defamatory, would constitute libel rather than slander. We affirm.

For the purposes of this opinion it is necessary to recite only the facts essential to our decision. These are that the defendant Bailey, as pastor of the defendant church, taped a series of sermons at an Arab radio station, and...

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