A Fayetteville

businessman alleges that former County Commission Chairman Harold Bost

sullied his reputation and that of his company in a letter to the editor

to The Fayette Citizen.

Lawrence H.

(Dan) Davis and Integrated Science Engineering, Inc. have filed a defamation

suit against Bost claiming he knew the information in the letter was false.

In the suit,

Davis claims his attorney requested Bost to write a retraction letter

to The Citizen the week after the original letter was published. Bost

declined to do so, the suit states.

Davis and ISE

are seeking unspecified damages for injuring "the plaintiffs good

name, credit and reputation."

The letter,

published in the Aug. 7 edition of The Citizen, questioned the ethics

of county commission candidate Mike Wheat while he served as Fayetteville's

mayor. Wheat eventually lost his bid for election to the commission after

he was defeated by incumbent Greg Dunn in the recent election.

Bost states

in the letter that although Wheat co-owned an airplane with Davis, Wheat

failed to abstain from discussion or voting on matters presented by Davis's

firm.

Davis's attorney

also pointed out that Fayetteville's mayor has no voting power on matters

brought before the council.