Lovelace v. Long John Silver's, Inc.

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiffs Excell and Kim Lovelace brought a petition in fourteen counts against Long John Silvers, Inc. and three of its employees: Jolena Swofford, Maria Warger and Marsha Alumbaugh. The petition pleads that in December of 1990, defendants Swofford, Warger and Alum-baugh made oral and written defamatory statements to Long John Silvers [US] management that Excell Lovelace, an US manager, had sexually harassed them during the course of their employment with US. Excell brought separate counts in slander and libel as to each, Swofford, War-ger and Alumbaugh, and…