TADEMY v. SCOTT

No. 11477.

157 F.2d 826 (1946)

TADEMY v. SCOTT et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 23, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. F. Kemp and J. M. Johnson, both of Atlanta, Ga., Ross R. Barnett, P. Z. Jones, and John E. Stone, all of Jackson, Miss., for appellant.

W. Colquitt Carter and Shepard Bryan, both of Atlanta, Ga., for appellees.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Edward Tademy, a resident of Mississippi, brought action for damages for libel against C. A. Scott, administrator, and others, residents of Georgia. The two newspaper articles upon which action was predicated appeared on successive weeks in the Jackson Advocate, a paper for negroes, edited, circulated, and sold in Jackson, Mississippi, and vicinity by one Percy Green. The Jackson Advocate was listed and recognized by the Scotts as a member of...

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