Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Coastal Transmission Service, Inc.

167 Ga. App. 611 (1983)

307 S.E.2d 83

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY

v.

COASTAL TRANSMISSION SERVICE, INC. et al.

65684.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided July 14, 1983.

Rehearing Denied July 28, 1983.

Walter C. Hartridge, Leamon R. Holliday III, for appellant.

James E. McAleer, Jr., D. Ray Gaskin, for appellees.

SOGNIER, Judge.

Coastal Transmission Service, Inc. (Coastal) and its president and owner, Richard Barrow, sued Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company (Southern Bell) for libel. The alleged libel appeared in Coastal's display advertisement in the 1981 Southern Bell yellow…