Applewhite v. Memphis State University

OPINION

DYER, Chief Justice.

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of the trial judge sustaining the motions to dismiss filed by each of the defendants, after determining the cause of action was barred by the applicable statute of limitations and by the doctrine of sovereign immunity as it applied to some of the defendants.

On December 2, 1970, the plaintiff, Sammy D. Applewhite, filed this suit alleging that a book entitled “Night Riders of Reel-foot Lake” written by the defendant, Paul J. Vanderwood, and published by the defendant, Memphis State University Press, Inc., which was written by…