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BRITTON v. KOEP

No. C8-90-1169.

470 N.W.2d 518 (1991)

David T. BRITTON, Respondent, v. Mary KOEP, individually and as Crow Wing County Commissioner, and Crow Wing County, petitioners, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

May 24, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon P. Parrington, Jeffrey J. Linquist, Pustorino, Pederson, Tilton & Parrington, Minneapolis, for appellants.

Edwin Sisam, Perry Smith, Sisam & Associates, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.

OPINION

YETKA, Justice.

This action for defamation arose as a result of statements the defendant-appellant, Mary Koep, a Crow Wing County commissioner, made at a meeting of Crow Wing and Morrison County commissioners. Koep stated that an informant told her that a county probation officer had coerced female probationers for sexual favors. Plaintiff-respondent, David Britton, was one of two county probation officers...

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