Manning v. McAllister

DOERNER, Commissioner.

In this action for slander plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment for $4,000, from which the defendants appealed.

On December 17, 1964, plaintiff was a probationary patrolman in the Police Department of the Village of St. John in St. Louis County, and the defendants McAl-lister and Yinger were the Chief of Police and the Sergeant, respectively, of that Department. Relying in the main on information which an informant, Neal or Nel-lum Smith, had furnished to the defendants, McAllister discharged plaintiff on that day on the grounds that plaintiff was guilty of conduct…