Isaacks v. Reed

ROY NOBLE LEE, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

Carol Isaacks Reed sued her former husband, Jimmie Isaacks, in the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, under the Mississippi Actionable Words Statute, Mississippi Code Annotated § 95-1-1 (1972), for writing and circulating a written statement accusing her of serious misconduct. Jimmie Isaacks represented himself pro se during the trial. The jury returned a verdict for Reed in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) actual damages and twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) punitive damages. Jimmie Isaacks appeals to this Court and assigns…