Smith v. Beloit Corp.

Plaintiff’s position is that the parties entered into a contract for “permanent” employment, meaning employment for as long as the plaintiff performed this work properly and the defendant continued to be engaged in the business in which connection it hired plaintiff. Defendant’s position is that the contract was terminable at will by either employer or employee with no fixed period of employment guaranteed. On the record as here established, neither position can be sustained.

In a recent case 1 this court quoted with full approval the general rule that “. . . a contract for permanent…