Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. v. Portilla

OPINION

DORSEY, Justice.

This is a wrongful termination action by an employee against her former employer. The critical issues concern the existence an oral employment contract and whether it violates the Statute of Frauds. The trial court entered a judgment on the verdict in favor of the employee, Portilla. Appellant, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, raises four points of error, and appellee asserts one cross point. We affirm.

Portilla began working for Goodyear in 1965 as a clerk in the company’s Port Lava-ca, Texas, store. Several years later, Por-tilla’s brother, Reynaldo Reyes, became her…