SAVANNAH NEWS-PRESS v. WHETSELL

56786.

149 Ga. App. 233 (1979)

254 S.E.2d 151

SAVANNAH NEWS-PRESS, DIVISION SOUTHEASTERN NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION v. WHETSELL.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided March 8, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gignilliat & Abbott, Thomas H. Gignilliat, Pierce, Ranitz, Mahoney, Forbes & Coolidge, Morton G. Forbes, for appellant.

Oliver, Maner & Gray, James Pannell, Thomas S. Gray, Jay Carroll Cox, for appellee.


BANKE, Judge.

This case involves a libel action filed by the appellee, John E. Whetsell, against the appellant, Savannah News-Press, Division Southeastern Newspapers Corporation. The trial judge denied Savannah News-Press' motion for summary judgment, and we granted its request for interlocutory appeal.

The Savannah News-Press, in an article written by one of its staff reporters, reported that Mr. Whetsell, the mayor of Twin Cities, Georgia, had been arrested...

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