State ex rel. State Department of Public Health & Welfare, Division of Welfare v. Luster

MAUGHMER, Commissioner.

We have here a suit, based upon a written contract, to recover a money judgment for an alleged breach of the contract. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff has appealed.

Many of the facts are not in dispute. On January 3, 1966, the defendant as Nancy T. O’Neal, nee Cox (now Nancy T. Luster by reason of a second marriage) was appointed a 0case worker in the Jackson County, Missouri welfare office. Mrs. O’Neal at that time was a high school graduate and had been awarded a degree in psychology by the Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg. She…