CAPROCK BEEF PACKERS CO. v. WAGNER

No. 8615.

531 S.W.2d 194 (1975)

CAPROCK BEEF PACKERS CO., Appellant, v. Lewis WAGNER, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

Rehearing Denied December 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gibson, Ochsner, Adkins, Harlan & Hankins, A. B. Hankins, Amarillo, for appellant.

Lemon, Close, Atkinson & Shearer, Otis C. Shearer, Booker, for appellee.


REYNOLDS, Justice.

In this action for slander, a corporation and its general manager were held jointly and severally liable for the malicious utterances of the general manager. The facts of this case show that the defamation was not referable to, nor made in the discharge of, any duty the general manager owed to the corporation so as to make the corporation liable. Affirmed in part; reversed and rendered in part.

Plaintiff Lewis Wagner sought actual and exemplary...

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