Bramhall v. ICN Medical Laboratories, Inc.

This is an action for damages for breach of a five-year employment contract. The case was tried before a jury and was submitted to it on special interrogatories. Defendant appeals from a judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $105,000. We affirm.

Summary of the facts.

In 1973 plaintiff was a professor of pathology at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, with rights of tenure, and was also the chief of clinical pathology at the adjacent Veterans Administration Hospital. As a result, he had acquired the right to pension benefits, both from the Veterans Administration and the medical…