LAUX v. MOTOR CARRIERS COUNCIL OF ST. LOUIS, INC.

No. 57058.

499 S.W.2d 805 (1973)

John A. LAUX, Appellant, v. MOTOR CARRIERS COUNCIL OF ST. LOUIS, INC., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

June 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack C. Terry, Independence, for appellant.

Galen Knowlton, Michael J. Drape, Kansas City, for respondent.


HOUSER, Commissioner.

On November 5, 1965 John A. Laux filed a petition in one count against Motor Carriers Council of St. Louis, Inc., and other defendants, charging in paragraph 3 that "subsequent to November, 1963" Motor Carriers Council, through its agent Mitchell Campbell, "in the presence of a large number of people," spoke of plaintiff false, defamatory and slanderous words, to wit, that plaintiff had embezzled $65,000 from Apex Fast Freight, Inc.

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