Lewgene Hall v. Hercules, Incorporated

LEWIS, Chief Judge.

This appeal follows an order of the District Court for the District of Kansas granting Hercules’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, preceded by a motion for a directed verdict taken under advisement by the court, setting aside a jury verdict of $20,000 awarded in Hall’s action for slander. Hall was discharged from employment in maintenance at the Sunflower Army Or dinance Plant, 1 near Kansas City, as the aftermath of an anonymous telephonic bomb threat received at the Plant on February 4, 1970. The trial court determined as a matter of Kansas law that the…