Legal Opinion
News Publishing Co. v. DeBerry
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 12, 1984No. 67725PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pope, Judge.
This appeal comes from a jury verdict in the amount of $75,000 in favor of plaintiff/appellee Brondon E. DeBerry against defendant/ appellant News Publishing Company d/b/a Rome News Tribune in an action for libel. On November 12, 1978, the date the article in question was published, DeBerry was deputy warden of the Floyd County Correctional Institution. In the article, the thrust of which was that state investigations of wrongdoing at the correctional institution had not been thorough, the following statement appeared: “Mr. DeBerry, upon seeing Mr. Knowles at the institution…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Curtis Publishing Co. v. ButtsSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
- Christiansen v. RobertsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1976
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3Cited by12 opinions
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- Tri-Eastern Petroleum Corp. v. Glenn's Super Gas, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1986
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