Allen v. Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.

Chief Judge Fuld.

The plaintiffs (upwards of 150 in number) are former employees who had worked in the defendant’s plant in Springfield, Ohio. Discharged in December, 1956, when the defendant suspended publication of Collier’s and Woman’s Home Companion, they sue for severance and retirement pay. It is their claim that the defendant had “ established and announced to its employees, including plaintiffs, and [had] carried out a policy and practice” of making severance — or retirement — payments upon the termination of employment and that they had “ started or continued in defendant’s employ ”,…