MULLINAX v. MILLER

No. A99A2038.

531 S.E.2d 390 (2000)

242 Ga. App. 811

MULLINAX et al. v. MILLER et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

March 16, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of William G. Hasty, Jr., P.C., William G. Hasty, Jr., Jonathan A. Pope, Canton, for appellants.

Edwin Marger, Jasper, for appellees.


RUFFIN, Judge.

Plaintiffs Don Mullinax and Roy Dobbs, public officials in Pickens County, filed a libel action against a former candidate for county commissioner, Cheryl Sams, and her campaign committee chairman, C. Mark Miller, based on a statement in one of Sams' newspaper campaign ads. Miller won summary judgment on the ground that he did not publish the statement in question. Because there was no evidence that Miller exercised any control over the content of the...

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