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LUMPKIN v. COFIELD

No. 87-114.

536 So.2d 62 (1988)

Don LUMPKIN and William R. Heatherly v. Stephen COFIELD.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Leura J. Garrett, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant Don Lumpkin.

Craig A. Donley, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Industrial Relations, and Robert C. Black of Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, for appellant William R. Heatherly.

Robert Wyeth Lee, Jr. of Wininger & Lee, Birmingham, for Stephen Cofield.

ALMON, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment on a jury verdict for the plaintiff in his action for malicious prosecution and the tort of outrageous conduct. The jury awarded Stephen Cofield, a former employee of the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations ("DIR"), $50,000 against Don Lumpkin, an investigator with DIR, and $125,000 against William R. Heatherly, formerly the director of DIR and currently the assistant director of DIR. Lumpkin and Heatherly raise...

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