McCloskey v. Eagleton

GARY M. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, Mark T. McCloskey, appeals from the dismissal with prejudice of his first amended petition for failure to state a cause of action. The sole issue presented for our review is whether an at-will employee may maintain an action for wrongful discharge based on the open courts provision of the Missouri Constitution. Mo. CONST, art. I, § 14.

Appellant was hired on May 15, 1986, as an associate attorney with the law firm of Thompson and Mitchell, respondents herein. According to a letter which was sent to appellant immediately before he began his…