Buchanan v. Martin Marietta Corp.

GLASSMAN, Justice.

The defendant, Martin Marietta Corporation, appeals from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, Murdock A. Buchanan, after a jury verdict in Superior Court, Cumberland County, finding that the parties had entered into an employment contract that was breached by the defendant’s termination of the plaintiff’s employment. We affirm the judgment of the Superior Court.

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The plaintiff was initially hired as a cement sales representative by the defendant’s predecessor in 1960. In 1969, because of a corporate reorganization the plaintiff was assigned to a position as terminal…