Macon Telegraph Publishing Company v. Tatum

Full title: MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHING COMPANY v. TATUM

Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia

Date published: Jun 13, 1994

446 S.E.2d 797 (Ga. Ct. App. 1994)

213 Ga. App. 536

Opinion

A92A1702.

DECIDED JUNE 13, 1994.

Action for damages. Bibb State Court. Before Judge Phillips.

Anderson, Walker Reichert, Walter H. Bush, Jr., Susan S. Cole, for appellant.

Adams Hemingway, William P. Adams, Butler, Wooten, Overby Cheeley, Albert M. Pearson III, for appellee.

Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, J. Tom Morgan, District Attorney, Glass, McCullough, Sherrill Harrold, Robert E. Wilson, Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett, David E. Hudson, Edward J. Tarver, amici curiae.

Judge Harold R. Banke.

In Macon Telegraph Pub. Co. v. Tatum, 208 Ga. App. 111 ( 430 S.E.2d 18) (1993), this court affirmed the trial court's judgment entered on a jury verdict for the plaintiff in an action for invasion of privacy based upon the defendant newspaper's publication of the plaintiff's name in a story concerning a sexual assault. However, in Macon Telegraph Pub. Co. v. Tatum, 263 Ga. 678 ( 436 S.E.2d 655) (1993), the Supreme Court reversed, finding that the plaintiff could not recover damages for such. Accordingly, this court's original judgment is vacated, and the judgment of the Supreme Court is hereby made the judgment of this court.

Judgment reversed. McMurray, P. J., and Blackburn, J., concur.

DECIDED JUNE 13, 1994.