Opinion No. 53-77 (1977)

Mr. William C. McIlroy Prosecuting Attorney Pike County, Courthouse Bowling Green, Missouri 63334

Dear Mr. McIlroy:

This letter is in response to your opinion request asking as follows:

"May the general funds of a County hospital be used for the payment of attorney's fees for individual counsel employed by certain individual members of the Board of Trustees who have been made defendants in a suit brought by a former employee of the hospital alleging interference with a contractual obligation?"

You also set out certain facts regarding the matter which we will not repeat because you indicate that…