Legal Opinion
Newson v. Henry
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided November 23, 1983No. 54205PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
443 So.2d 817 (1983)
Charles NEWSON
v.
Aaron E. HENRY and Ruth Armstrong Ross, Executrix of the Estate of L.A. Ross, Jr., Deceased.
No. 54205.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
November 23, 1983.
Rehearing Denied January 25, 1984.
Cleve McDowell, Cleveland, for appellant.
W.O. Luckett, Jr., W. Kurt Henke, Luckett, Luckett, Luckett & Thompson, Clarksdale, for appellees.
En Banc.
PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:
Aaron E. Henry and L.A. Ross, Jr.[1] filed defamation suits in the Circuit Court of Coahoma County based upon a newspaper article written by Wilson F. Minor and published in the Capital Reporter…
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- Henry v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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