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CHATHAM v. GULF PUB. CO., INC.

No. 56252.

502 So.2d 647 (1987)

Thomas Edgar CHATHAM d/b/a Edgar's Lounge v. GULF PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 4, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Pritchard, Biloxi, for appellant.

W. Joel Blass, Henry F. Laird, Jr., Mize, Thompson & Blass, Gulfport, for appellee.

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

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This libel action arises from a complaint filed by Thomas Edgar Chatham d/b/a Edgar's Lounge, alleging that Gulf Publishing Company, Inc., through a series of articles appearing in two of its newspapers, falsely reported that police answered a disturbance call at his lounge on Howard Avenue in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The circuit court held, inter alia, that as a matter of law Chatham had not been libeled, and granted...

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