LAWRENCE v. EVANS

No. 89-CA-1158.

573 So.2d 695 (1990)

Ken LAWRENCE v. Jessie L. EVANS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Craig, Jackson, for appellant.

Edward Blackmon, Jr., Blackmon Blackmon & Evans, Canton, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and BLASS, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court.

I.

This libel action appears in a posture opposite of that we normally see. The reporter is doing the suing, claiming he has been libeled. The defendant is a lawyer, handling the prosecution of a separate libel action against the reporter/plaintiff, and who, while pursuing the all-too-familiar but still most lamentable practice of trying his lawsuit in the press, disparaged the reporter, and the latter has taken...

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