Garrity v. Valley View Nursing Home, Inc.

The judge in the Superior Court appears to have confused the question of how long the defendant was obliged to extend employment to the plaintiff (see Campion v. Boston & Me. R.R., 269 Mass. 579, 581-582 [1930]; Fenton v. Federal St. Bldg. Trust, 310 Mass. 609, 612 [1942]; Phelps v. Shawprint, Inc., 328 Mass. 352, 355 [1952]; Askinas v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp., 330 Mass. 103, 106 [1953]) with the question whether the terms and provisions of the employee manual which the defendant had required the plaintiff to sign in 1971 constituted part of her contract of employment (see Kirkley v. F.H.…