Legal Opinion
Ettenson v. Burke
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided December 7, 2000No. 19953PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOSSON, Judge.
{1} A fired corporate officer sued both his employer and his chief executive officer, who was the controlling shareholder of the corporation and his immediate supervisor, for damages arising from his termination. The lawsuit alleges a potpourri of creative legal theories sounding in both tort and implied contract. As a matter of first impression under New Mexico law, we hold that an employee can sue his supervisor, individually, for the tort of interference with contractual relations, meaning contractual obligations owed by the corporation to the employee, and that this…
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