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PRESNELL v. PELL

No. 38.

260 S.E.2d 611 (1979)

298 N.C. 715

Mary Alice PRESNELL v. Joe A. PELL, Jr.; Clinton W. Moseley; Grover W. Hanes, Jr.; James R. Marion; Claude V. Ayers; Fred A. Holder; Billy Smith; Doyle Key; Talmage Crouse; James S. Nixon; Individuals and Surry County Board of Education; Dennis Smitherman, Individually and as Principal of Mountain Park Elementary School; and Charles C. Graham, Individually and as the Superintendent of Surry County School System.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 4, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Smith, Elkin, for plaintiff-appellee.

Faw, Folger, Sharpe & White by Fredrick G. Johnson, Dobson, for defendants-appellants.

Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove by George T. Rogister, Jr., and Carlyn G. Poole, Raleigh, for North Carolina School Boards Association, Inc., amicus curiae.

EXUM, Justice.

This is an action for slander and wrongful discharge from employment. The questions presented are whether (1) the complaint states a claim for relief for defamation and (2) the claim for wrongful discharge was properly dismissed for want of original jurisdiction. We answer both in the affirmative.

Plaintiff alleges by her complaint: Before her discharge on 13 December 1976 she was employed by defendant...

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