Wright v. Truman Road Enterprises, Inc.

CROSS, Judge.

Plaintiff filed this action against the defendant Truman Road Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Bond Motors, and its employee-manager, defendant Ervin Teeter, seeking to recover damages for alleged slander.

Plaintiff alleges in his petition that he was arrested under a warrant issued in criminal proceedings instituted upon defendants’ complaint charging “one Leo Wright” with the crime of drawing and delivering a $10.00 check to “Bond Motors”, without sufficient funds for its payment and with intent to defraud; that plaintiff was in fact not the person who had written the check in question;…