Legal Opinion
Boyle v. Petrie Stores Corp.
New York Supreme Court
Decided December 19, 1985PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Edward J. Greenfield, J.
This is an action for wrongful discharge, but unlike many such cases which have besieged the courts of late, this one involves an executive employee who in fact had a carefully worked out written contract, and now, claiming a breach, insists on a literal application of that contract.
In 1982 Milton Petrie, chairman of the board of the Petrie Stores Corporation, was 79 years old. He had founded the company in 1927, and had built it up into a chain of 1,400 women’s specialty stores (operating under a variety of names) in 45 States, Puerto Rico, the…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- McClelland v. Climax Hosiery MillsNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
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