United Industries Corp. v. Woods

SHIVERS, Judge.

Appellant United Industries Corporation, defendant in the trial court, appeals the entry of a directed verdict in favor of the appellee/plaintiff, Sharon Woods, in her action against United for payment of severance pay. We affirm the directed verdict.

The evidence .produced at trial established, without dispute, that Woods began working in July 1981 in the advertising *245department of the Rid-A-Bug Company, predecessor to the Spectrum Group, Inc. Woods eventually became the company’s advertising director. On December 4, 1986, Chesebrough Ponds, Inc. purchased Spectrum and made it…