PRESNELL v. PELL

No. 7817SC325.

251 S.E.2d 692 (1979)

39 N.C. App. 538

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.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 6, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Smith, Elkin, for plaintiff-appellant.

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


MITCHELL, Judge.

The plaintiff assigns as error the trial court's dismissal of her claim for relief for "slander and defamation" based upon her allegations that the principal of Mountain Park Elementary School, the defendant Smitherman, falsely accused her of bringing liquor into her place of employment in the public school and distributing it to others present. She contends that these false allegations caused her to be discharged and reflected discredit upon her...

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