Dwyer v. Busch Properties, Inc.

MORGAN, Judge.

Appellant initiated this action for actual and punitive damages against respondent, his former employer, for its alleged noncompliance with § 290.140, RSMo, commonly referred to as the “service letter” statute and which provides, in part, that:

Whenever any employee of any corporation doing business in this state shall be discharged or voluntarily quit the service of such corporation, it shall be the duty of the superintendent or manager of said corporation, upon the written request of such employee to him, if such employee shall have been in the service of said corporation for a…