Mead Johnson and Co. v. Oppenheimer

NEAL, Presiding Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order of the Gibson Cireuit Court denying defendant-appellant, Mead Johnson and Company's (Mead Johnson), motion for summary judgment in an action brought by plaintiff-appellee, John Oppenheimer (Oppenheimer), who sought to recover damages for his discharge from employment.

We reverse.

STATEMENT OF THE FACTS

From 1972 through 1981 Oppenheimer was employed by Mead Johnson at its Evansville location, and his employment was at will or for an indefinite period of time. On November 19, 1981, Oppenheimer deliberately…