Brooks v. Stone

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The facts in this case at first blush almost suggest the innocuous talking animal characters and fictions contained in Aesop’s Fables. This case involves the editors of the Medical College of Georgia publication Cadaver, who use the pen name “Bones,” along with and including other characterizations such as birds, bird cages, German shepherds and other dogs, camels, humping bitches in heat, possible sexual connotations and a student nurse, Mrs. Brooks. The latter was married and two months pregnant at the time of the publication.

The nurse’s letter and the editor’s…