Howell v. Commercial Credit Corp.

The demurrer admits the factual averments of the complaint relating to the colloquy between the plaintiff and the divisional manager of the defendant, but it does not admit the legal conclusion of the complaint that such colloquy operated as an implied assurance from the defendant to the plaintiff that his employment by it was to be permanent. Clinard v. Lambeth, 234 N.C. 410, 67 S.E. 2d 452; Anderson v. Atkinson, 234 N.C. 271, 66 S.E. 2d 886.

When the plaintiff is accorded the full benefit of all its factual aver-ments, the complaint merely alleges a hiring under a contract which does not…