Kennedy v. City of St. Louis

SIMEONE, Senior Judge.

I

This is an appeal by four ophthalmologists, Drs. Wagih A. Satar, Malaz Safi, Nisaruddin Kahn and Shamlal Tekwani, from a judgment entered by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis on June 3, 1987 denying their claims for breach of contract of their positions as “physicians-in-training” or “residents” at former City Hospital No. 1 (Max C. Starkloff Memorial Hospital).1

The key issue in this proceeding is whether the appellants, four physicians, *429who, having been offered positions as physicians-in-training (residencies) and who were assured by City officials that if…