Legal Opinion
Dooms v. First Home Savings Bank
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided March 1, 2012No. SD 31282PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DON E. BURRELL, Presiding Judge.
Vicky J. Dooms (“Plaintiff’) sued her former employer, First Home Savings Bank (“Bank”), and its parent company, First Bancshares, Inc. (collectively, “Defendants”), for damages based on a claim that Defendants wrongfully discharged Plaintiff from her employment in violation of public policy. The case was tried to a jury, which returned verdicts awarding Plaintiff $182,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $235,000 in punitive damages. The trial court entered judgment consistent with the jury’s verdicts.
Defendants now appeal that judgment in three…
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