Court Opinion

ID: 9680519
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:32:50.140015+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:28.977104
License: Public Domain

TODD, Presiding Judge,
concurring.
I fully concur in that part of the principal opinion which deals with the non-liability of the Mid-South Publishing Company, Inc., d/b/a The Daily News Journal.
I concur in the result reached in respect to Donald H. Keith d/b/a The Press, but only on the basis that the plaintiff failed to offer satisfactory evidence that the publication was capable of interpretation in a defamatory, i.e., libelous meaning. I cannot agree that a newspaper is entitled to a summary judgment where it prints a non-libelous letter under a libelous headline.