Jones v. Golden Spike Corp.

OPINION

By the Court,

McDaniel, D. J. 1 :

This appeal involves a slander action by an employee against his corporate employer. Appellant Wally Jones was employed as the head bartender by respondent Golden Spike Corporation, a Nevada corporation, which owns and operates the Golden Spike Casino in Carson City, Nevada. On September 22, 1977, the president of Golden Spike, Charles Paul Leonard, Jr., had received a surveillance report on the performance of the bartenders in the bar at the casino. He reviewed the report with Golden Spike’s general manager, Richard Bennett. At 5:30 p.m. that day,…