Shafi v. St. Francis Hospital

The appellee, Mohammad Shafi, M.D., filed suit against the appellant, St. Francis Hospital, on April 16, 1986, alleging that the hospital breached its contract with him by terminating him as Director of the Department of Anesthesiology without good cause. Prior to the trial, the appellant filed a motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence of oral representations made by the hospital’s President and Chief Executive Officer, William E. Shirey, to the appellee that the handwritten changes made by the appellee in his 1978 employment contract with the hospital providing that he could only be…