# Stones River Motors, Inc. v. Mid-South Publishing Co.

> Court of Appeals of Tennessee · January 26, 1983 · 651 S.W.2d 713

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9680519

## Case

- **Full name:** STONES RIVER MOTORS, INC. and Kenneth W. Snell, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MID-SOUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., D/B/A the Daily News Journal; Donald H. Keith, D/B/A the Press; Bill Bickford, Mary Jo Bickford, and Christie Bickford, Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Tennessee
- **Decided:** January 26, 1983
- **Citations:** 651 S.W.2d 713; 1983 Tenn. App. LEXIS 702
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Todd
- **Judges:** Conner, Lewis, Middle, Todd
- **Cited by:** 59 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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.

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