Minyard Food Stores, Inc. v. Goodman

OPINION

DAUPHINOT, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellants Minyard Food Stores, Inc. (Minyard) and Leslie W. Heflin (Heflin) appeal the trial court’s judgment in favor of Appellee Brenda Kay Goodman (Goodman) in an action for slander. The jury found that Heflin slandered Goodman in the course and scope of his employment at Minyard and awarded compensatory damages to Goodman in the amount of $325,000. Minyard brings three points challenging the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s verdict and its corresponding damages award and complaining that the trial court…