BAKER v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN, INC.

No. 12683.

587 P.2d 829 (1978)

99 Idaho 688

L.B. BAKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BURLINGTON NORTHERN, INC., Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

December 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Hunt of Greene & Hunt, Sandpoint, for plaintiff-appellant.

W.W. Nixon of Nixon, Nixon, Lyons & Bell, Coeur d'Alene, for defendant-respondent.


DONALDSON, Justice.

The plaintiff-appellant L.B. Baker brought this action against his former employer, the defendant-respondent Burlington Northern, Inc., alleging libel and invasion of privacy. Baker was provisionally hired by Burlington Northern as a track laborer on March 17, 1973. The employment application, which Baker completed and signed on March 13, 1973, contained the question: "Have you ever been convicted of a crime?" Baker answered "no" to this question...

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