Terrio v. Millinocket Community Hospital

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.'

A Superior Court jury awarded the plaintiff, June Terrio, damages in the amount of $39,000 against Millinocket Community Hospital (Hospital) for discharging her in breach of an alleged contract of employment. The defendant Hospital appeals from the judgment entered upon that jury verdict. We deny the appeal.

In early 1955, the Hospital hired the plaintiff, then 38 years of age, a trained medical technologist, to develop and administer a medical laboratory. At the outset Mrs. Terrio was the sole laboratory employee and exercised responsibility for purchasing equipment…