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NEWS PUBLISHING CO. v. DeBERRY

67725.

171 Ga. App. 787 (1984)

321 S.E.2d 112

NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY v. DeBERRY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Groze Murphy, Jr., for appellant.

Christopher A. Frazier, for appellee.

POPE, Judge.

This appeal comes from a jury verdict in the amount of $75,000 in favor of plaintiff/appellee Brondon E. DeBerry against defendant/ appellant News Publishing Company d/b/a Rome News Tribune in an action for libel. On November 12, 1978, the date the article in question was published, DeBerry was deputy warden of the Floyd County Correctional Institution. In the article, the thrust of which was that state investigations of wrongdoing at the correctional...

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