Stinson v. American Sterilizer Co.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the defendants, American Sterilizer Company ("the Company"), Donald J. Ryan, Keith Long, Kenneth D. Thomas, and Bill Roberts — all management members at the Company's Montgomery, Alabama, facility — and against Louis Stinson on Count II of his complaint, which alleged breach of an employment contract. The trial court made that judgment final pursuant to Rule 54(b), A.R.Civ.P. We affirm.

The issues presented for our review are whether the Company's employee handbook created an employment contract and, if so, whether that handbook required…