Legal Opinion
Bruce T. Mursch v. Van Dorn Company, D/B/A Central States Can Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 13, 1988No. 87-1254, 87-1519PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Bruce Mursch appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant-appellee on Mursch’s claim for breach of an employment contract. We affirm.
I
In May 1981, the defendant-appellee Van Dorn Company, d/b/a Central States Can Company (“Central States”) hired Mursch as a salesman. According to Mursch’s immediate supervisor, Paul Weston, Central States did not agree to employ Mursch for any specified period of time. During his employment with Central States (from May 1981 until March 1984), Mursch’s compensation consisted of a…
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