Halpin v. LaSalle University

WIEAND, Judge:

In this declaratory judgment action, the trial court held that contracts of employment between La Salle University, the employer, and Charles A. Halpin, Jr. and Robert J. Courtney, professors, conferred employment upon the professors for the remainder of their academic lives so as to render them exempt from the university’s mandatory retirement program. The university appealed. After careful review, we reverse.

Halpin and Courtney began their teaching careers at La Salle University during the 1940’s. On March 20, 1956, the university published in the Faculty Bulletin a policy on…