Perdue v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

Action for slander. The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for actual damages, $1000, and for punitive damages, $500, and judgment was entered upon the verdict. Motion for new trial was denied, and defendant appealed to the Kansas City Court of Appeals, where the judgment was affirmed (100 S.W.2d 341), but that court deeming its decision in conflict with the decision of the Springfield Court of Appeals in Gust v. Montgomery Ward Company, 229 Mo. App. 371, 80 S.W.2d 286, certified the present cause to this court. [See Const., Amendment 1884, Sec. 6.]

The Court of Appeals correctly…