HOOD v. NAETER BROS. PUB. CO.

No. 39067.

562 S.W.2d 770 (1978)

Roger HOOD, Appellant, v. NAETER BROTHERS PUBLISHING CO. and Don R. Smith, Respondents.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division One.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied March 10, 1978.

Application to Transfer Denied April 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spradling, Drusch, Dillard & Spradling, A. M. Spradling, III, Cape Girardeau, for appellant.

Finch, Bradshaw, Strom & Steele, James A. Cochrane, III, Cape Girardeau, for respondents.


CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Action for damages for allegedly outrageous conduct by a newspaper in publishing plaintiff's name as witness to a murder. The trial court sustained defendants' motion for summary judgment and plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff pleaded he was an employee of a liquor store and was working on the evening of August 7, 1976 when the store was robbed by two masked black men. Plaintiff witnessed the fatal shooting of a fellow employee. The...

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