Canney v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The plaintiff brought a bill in equity against the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (the company) and the International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers (the union) seeking specific performance of an alleged oral contract to employ the plaintiff for life and to assume all of the plaintiff’s medical expenses resulting from an injury received by him in the course of his employment. The bill was dismissed against the union. A final decree was entered on October 22, 1963, ordering the company to pay the plaintiff $85,530. The company appeals from the final decree.

1. We first dispose of…