Tatum v. Liner

OPINION

CANTU, Justice.

Carolyn Liner, appellee, brought suit against appellant, W.R. Tatum, for defamation. Appellee had been employed as personnel manager for the City of Seguin and had resigned to become director of personnel for the City of San Marcos. Specifically, appellee alleged that appellant made statements about appellee misrepresenting her Seguin salary in order to obtain a salary in San Marcos exceeding her Se-guin salary by $9,000, and that appellee had experienced some trouble with Se-guin’s City Council due to excessive absences and to a possible conflict of interest with her…