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FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. BRAND

Nos. 13-94-207-CV, 13-94-599-CV.

907 S.W.2d 614 (1995)

FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Formerly Freedom Newspapers, Inc.) d/b/a The Monitor and R. Daniel Cavazos, Appellants, v. Othal E. BRAND, Sr., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Overruled September 21, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa D. Powell, Gary L. Gurwitz, Rex N. Leach, Atlas & Hall, McAllen, John A. Bussian, III, Durham, Jeffery T. Nobles, Haynes and Boone, L.L.P., Houston, for appellants.

R.W. Armstrong, R.W. Armstrong & Associates, Brownsville, Brian Turner, Austin, John L. Barnes, Houston, for appellee.

Before FEDERICO G. HINOJOSA, Jr., CHAVEZ and RODRIGUEZ, JJ.

OPINION

FEDERICO G. HINOJOSA, Jr., Justice.

Freedom Communications, Inc. publishes The Monitor, a daily newspaper in McAllen, Texas. Othal E. Brand, Sr., the Mayor of McAllen, sued the newspaper for libel allegedly ensuing from a column written by the newspaper's editor, R. Daniel Cavazos. Cavazos wrote five editorials which appeared in The Monitor between June 7, 1992 and April 11, 1993. Brand alleged generally that the editorials constituted...

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