Starnes v. St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Co.

Lyman L. Starnes sued St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Company for slander and obtained a judgment in the Buchanan County Circuit Court for $518 actual damages and $250 punitive damages. Defendant appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals where the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded. [Starnes v. St. Joseph Ry., Light, Heat & Power Co., 22 S. W. (2d) 73.] Deeming its decision contrary to the preYious decisions of the Springfield Court of Appeals in Paris v. Waddell, 139 Mo. App. 288, 123 S. W. 79, and Hilburn v. Insurance Company, 140 Mo. App. 355, 124 S. W. 63, and…