# Taylor v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co.

> Court of Appeals of Tennessee · March 31, 1978 · 573 S.W.2d 476

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9680759

## Case

- **Full name:** Robert L. TAYLOR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NASHVILLE BANNER PUBLISHING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Tennessee
- **Decided:** March 31, 1978
- **Citations:** 573 S.W.2d 476; 1978 Tenn. App. LEXIS 313
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing by Drowota
- **Judges:** Drowota, Blackburn, Todd
- **Cited by:** 130 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

OPINION ON PETITION TO REHEAR
DROWOTA, Judge.
Plaintiff Taylor has filed a brief petition to rehear in which he asks how this Court can ignore the first deposition of Will Cheek and “import absolute verity” to the second. We think it clear from the principal opinion, however, that we did not view Cheek’s depositions in this way. Rather, we assumed that his inconsistent statements had the effect of “cancelling each other out,” which left us with the testimony of Morrell and Long that Cheek was their source for the disputed statement in the article of May 30, 1974. Our approach to *490 this issue has been fully explained in the principal opinion and will not be further recapitulated here.
The petition to rehear is respectfully denied.
TODD, J., and BLACKBURN, Special Judge, concur.

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