Journal Pub. Co. v. McCullough
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
743 So.2d 352 (1999)
JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY and Sid Scott
v.
Derwood McCULLOUGH.
No. 97-CA-00447-SCT.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
August 5, 1999.
Rehearing Denied October 7, 1999.
Thomas Wicker, Tupelo, Attorney for Appellant.
Grady F. Tollison, Jr., Oxford, Kenneth M. Burns, Okolona, Kenna L. Mansfield, Jr., Jackson, E. Farish Percy, Oxford, Attorneys for Appellee.
BEFORE SULLIVAN, P.J., BANKS AND WALLER, JJ.
BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. This is a libel case in which a jury awarded actual and punitive damages to a former chancery clerk where the newspaper printed a story revealing that a…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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