Hunt v. St. Louis Housing Authority

STEPHAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s petition, which sought actual and punitive damages under § 290.140, RSMo 1969, Missouri’s “service letter statute”. Plaintiff’s petition alleged that he had been an employee of defendant St. Louis Housing Authority, that upon his discharge he requested a service letter pursuant to the statute, that the letter issued to him by defendant failed to state the true reason for his dismissal and that such failure prevented him from obtaining similar employment and thereby caused him great mental and…