McIntyre v. United Five Cent & Ten Cent Stores, Inc.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

This action, instituted in the Court of Common Pleas for Calhoun County, by J. T. McIntyre, as plaintiff, against the defendant, United Five Cent & Ten Cent Stores, Inc., is a suit for damages, actual and punitive, for the sum of $2,-500.00, for alleged wrongful discharge of the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant in its mercantile business. The case was tried in said Court at the April, 1933, term, before Judge J. Henry Johnson and a jury, resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $300.00, actual damages, the trial…