Martin v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.

About a month ago, this court issued its opinion in the case of Yeager v. Harrah’s, 111 Nev. 830, 897 P.2d 1093 (1995), in which it refused to let a Harrah’s employee have a jury trial because he did not furnish any corroborative evidence to establish that his contract with Harrah’s would not permit Harrah’s to terminate him without cause. I dissented in Yeager because the employee in that case offered ample evidence to support his employment contract and because I did not think that an employee should be thrown out of court simply because he had supplied no corroborative evidence to back up…