Legal Opinion

Perry v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided May 27, 1987No. 56539PublishedCited by 91 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

508 So.2d 1086 (1987)

Willis L. PERRY

v.

SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., et al.

No. 56539.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 27, 1987.

Jack B. Weldy, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Patrick H. Zachary, Zachary & Zachary, Hattiesburg, for appellee.

Before WALKER, C.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.

ANDERSON, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal from the Chancery Court of Forrest County presents us with a story all the more depressing for being sadly familiar. Willis Perry served the Sears, Roebuck organization faithfully and with distinction for some twenty years. He was almost within sight of retirement when Sears…

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2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Perry v. SindermannSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue ShieldMichigan Supreme Court · 1980
  3. Fortune v. National Cash Register Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
  4. Weiner v. McGraw-Hill, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1982
  5. Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1980

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3Cited by91 opinions

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  3. Martin Marietta Corp. v. LorenzSupreme Court of Colorado · 1992
  4. Cenac v. MurryMississippi Supreme Court · 1992
  5. McArn v. Allied Bruce-Terminix Co., Inc.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1993

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