Kokomo Center Township Consolidated School Corp. v. McQueary

I dissent from the Majority Opinion and would affirm the trial court for the following reasons:

1. Here we are dealing with a written employment contract which is in contrast with the employee at will eases cited by the Majority.

2. The Majority defines and interprets the slang phrase “put Wright under” as an obvious threat to kill with total disregard of the circumstances under which the slang expression was used. As Justice Holmes emphasized in Towne v. Eisner: “A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content…