Clayton v. MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHING COMPANY

Benham, Judge.

Appellants instituted the instant libel action after appellee published a front-page newspaper story on street corner drug transactions and accompanied the story with a photograph depicting a specified street intersection as well as an identifiable portion of appellants’ home, which was located across the street from one of the street corners that was the subject of the article. The caption of the picture read: “Street-corner drug sales reportedly made at Poppy Avenue, Bluebell Street.” In their complaint appellants alleged that the inclusion of the photograph imputed to…