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MEAD CORP. v. HICKS

82-159.

448 So.2d 308 (1983)

MEAD CORPORATION and Merle Brown v. R.D. HICKS.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold F. Herring, Huntsville, for appellants.

H.R. Campbell and Robert L. Hodges, Scottsboro, for appellee.

FAULKNER, Justice.

The defendants, Merle Brown and the Mead Corporation, appealed from a judgment based on a jury verdict for $110,000.00, in favor of the plaintiff, R.D. Hicks, in a defamation action.

Hicks was a businessman in the Stevenson community in Jackson County, Alabama. He held garbage collection contracts with Jackson County and with several towns, including Stevenson. He was also responsible for collecting waste at a nuclear power plant. Hicks...

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