Patrick v. McGowan

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice CARTER.

Charlotte J. Patrick (Patrick) and Vanessa L. Simmons (Simmons), Appellants, appeal the trial court’s award of summary judgment in favor of the Defendant-Appellee, Leonard McGowan (McGowan). Patrick and Simmons sued McGowan, their former supervisor, for intentional infliction of emotional distress and defamation per se. McGowan filed a motion for summary judgment and written objections to plaintiffs’ summary judgment evidence. The trial court sustained McGowan’s objections to plaintiffs’ sum mary judgment evidence and granted summary judgment in favor of…