FULTON v. MISSISSIPPI PUBLISHERS CORP.

No. 55895.

498 So.2d 1215 (1986)

C.B. FULTON and Jeanette F. Fulton v. MISSISSIPPI PUBLISHERS CORPORATION, d/b/a Ocean Springs Record, and Wayne W. Weidie.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Compton, Carter O. Bise, Bryan, Nelson, Allen, Schroeder & Compton, Biloxi, for appellants.

Frank D. Montague, Jr., Gray, Montague & Pittman, Hattiesburg, for appellees.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This defamation action arises from an article published in a Gulf Coast newspaper questioning a former alderman's claim to lands arguably public. The alderman, however, is not the plaintiff. Instead, the grantors of a quitclaim deed delivered to the former alderman claim the newspaper's arrows have hit an unintended target and defamed them along with the alderman.

The Circuit Court held, inter alia, that as a...

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