Stone v. Brooks

Bell, Justice.

We granted certiorari to consider the entire opinion of the Court of Appeals, Brooks v. Stone, 170 Ga. App. 457 (317 SE2d 277) (1984). After plenary review of the case, however, we find that only one issue, the question of invited libel, requires comment.

Although the Court of Appeals properly analyzed the applicability of the doctrine of provoked or invited libel to the present case, the court prefaced this analysis with the mistaken observation that the doctrine has not previously been applied in Georgia. The court apparently overlooked several cases which hold that an…