Uintah Basin Medical Center v. Hardy

127 I concur with the majority opinion that the contract in question is proprietary in nature and could therefore bind the successor trustees of the hospital. However, I differ with the analysis of the opinion as to how the trial court is to determine the reasonableness of the duration of the contract on remand.

{23 Well-settled canons of contract construction and interpretation dictate that the trial court, when faced with a contract of employment that is silent as to its duration, and thus indefinite in length, but expressly terminable only for just cause, should determine by implication a…