Brown v. Newman

Mr. Special Justice Erby L. Jenkins

delivered the opinion of the Court.

These two suits were instituted by David G. Brown and Jake "West, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs, each for $150,000.00 damages for alleged libelous matter published by the defendants. The defendants demurred to the declarations, and the trial court sustained the demurrers. Plaintiffs have appealed to this Court.

Proposing to build several high-rise apartment buildings in the Kingston Pike-Sequoyah Hills residential area of Knoxville, Tennessee, the plaintiffs attempted to obtain proper zoning regulations so that…