Marathon Oil Co. v. Salazar

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on jury answers to special issues in a suit for malicious prosecution, libel, and slander, awarding plaintiff-appellee, Paul F. Salazar, compensatory and punitive damages totaling $765,000.

Salazar, a seven-year employee of the appellant, Marathon Oil Company, sued Marathon and the four individual appellants, all of whom are Marathon “officers, employees or managing agents,” after he *627was charged with, arrested, and fired for the theft of a tool, a “Coffing 1½ ton Comealong,” owned by a Marathon subcontractor and found in appellee’s…