Covey v. Fields

NEELY, Justice:

The appellant, Mr. Edgile Covey, resides on Faulkner Road in Randolph County. The appellee, Mr. Delmar Fields, lives directly across Faulkner Road from Mr. Covey. On the evening of 16 July 1983, Mr. Fields hosted a party at his house. Mr. Fields and his merry band that evening performed devout ministrations to Dionysus, and eventually these bacchanalia began to exceed the bounds of good taste.

By and by the conversation turned to the subject of Mr. Covey, whom the company appears to have held in low esteem. An extraordinary degree of anti-Covey sentiment was whipped up, which…