Crockett v. Mid-America Health Services

CLARK, Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered against plaintiff-appellant, Greta E. Crockett, on her petition for damages brought against respondent, the operator of a psychiatric hospital in Jackson County. The issue presented in the case is whether Crockett’s petition pleaded a cause of action for wrongful discharge of an employee under the public policy exception to the Missouri doctrine of employment at will.

Appellant contends in two points of error that the trial court was not entitled to award summary judgment because the petition stated a cause of action for a wrongful…