White v. United Mills, Inc.

This is an action for libel. There was a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $1000 actual and $1000 punitive damages. Defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff alleges in his petition that defendant operated a large flour mill in Kansas City, Kansas; that on or about October 18, 1943, plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a watchman at its mill and plant for the protection of defendant’s property; that plaintiff’s superiors “formed a violent,• critical denunciatory attitude toward him and contrived and threatened to grievously injure him in his reputation and calling and ability to obtain similar…