Goree v. Carnes

OPINION

Before CANTU, KLINGEMAN and CLARK, JJ. CANTU, Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing judgment rendered notwithstanding the special issue findings of the jury on one or more special issues in an action for slander.

Travis Goree sued D. C. Carnes, a Uvalde, Texas, farmer, cotton gin operator, Director of the First State Bank of Uvalde and member of the bank’s loan review committee, alleging that Carnes, while sitting as a member of the bank’s loan review committee, had maliciously uttered false and slanderous statements against him for which he was entitled to recover actual as…