Carr v. Montgomery Ward & Company

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

Plaintiff, a former employee of defendant, brought this action to recover actual' damages in the sum of $5,000 and exemplary damages in the sum of $25,000, on grounds that, following her discharge as such employee, defendant, upon written, request made by plaintiff, unlawfully and maliciously refused to issue to her the so-called “service letter” required by § 290.140 RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S. Attached to and made a part of her petition was-plaintiff’s Exhibit “A”, being the letter pleaded by plaintiff as the written request made by her for said “service letter”. Defendant…