Legal Opinion
Finklea v. Jacksonville Daily Progress
Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler)
Decided December 11, 1987No. 12-87-0021-CVPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BILL BASS, Justice.
This is a libel action in which summary judgment was granted in favor of all defendant newspapers and the City of Rusk and against plaintiff-appellant, Finklea. We affirm the judgment.
Finklea asserts the allegedly defamatory statement was made to news reporters by the Police Chief and Assistant Police Chief of the city of Rusk. The statement was subsequently printed in the defendant newspapers in a news article regarding a plea of guilty entered by a former deputy sheriff to a charge of accepting a gift from Finklea, a person subject to his jurisdiction. The articles…
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