Walker v. Hyde

E. Charles Eichenbaum, Special Justice.

The plaintiff Donna Walker was a part owner in a vending company, Valley Vending, Inc., begun in 1984, which had, for a brief period, the concession for vending machines at Arkansas Nuclear One (“ANO”). Prior to March, 1984, she had been an employee of C M Vending, which had previously held the ANO contract, and before that an employee of Hyde Vending Company, owned by the defendant, Bert Hyde.

The defendant Bert Hyde had been the owner of Hyde Vending Company, who sold that company to C M Vending, and, from the sale date in 1973 through 1984, was…