STANDARD FRUIT & STEAMSHIP COMPANY v. Putnam

290 So.2d 612 (1974)

STANDARD FRUIT & STEAMSHIP COMPANY et al.

v.

Donald S. PUTNAM.

No. 47405.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 18, 1974.

Watkins & Eager, William F. Goodman, Jr., Jackson, Martin & Taylor, Gulfport, for appellants.

Daniel, Coker, Horton, Bell & Dukes, Donald V. Burch, Jackson, for appellee.

BROOM, Justice:

In the Circuit Court of Hinds County, Mississippi, appellee, Donald Putnam, was awarded a verdict in the sum of $22,500 based on a suit for tortious, wrongful and malicious interference with his employment, trade or calling. We reverse and render.

Putnam, a truck driver, of very…