Legal Opinion
Carr v. Brasher
Texas Supreme Court
Decided May 10, 1989No. C-7248PublishedCited by 1,291 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GONZALEZ, Justice.
This is a defamation action brought by a public figure. Lynn Brasher, former may- or of the City of South Houston, Texas, sued the victorious candidate, A1 Thiel, alleging that Thiel had libeled him in the course of the campaign in a series of campaign brochures authored by the second defendant, Walter Carr. The court of appeals reversed the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of the defendants in part on the basis that the defendants had failed to establish the absence of malice as a matter of law and remanded the cause to the trial court. 743 S.W.2d 674. We reverse the…
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