Legal Opinion
Kestenbaum v. Pennzoil Co.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided November 30, 1988No. 16965PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RANSOM, Justice.
Plaintiff Louis Kestenbaum was awarded damages for breach of an employment contract. The trial was had before a jury which found by special verdict that the employment was not terminable at will, but rather was subject to an implied contract requiring a good reason for termination, and that there was no good reason to discharge Kestenbaum. We affirm.
Kestenbaum was employed in March of 1977 by defendants Pennzoil Company and its subsidiary, Vermejo Park Corporation, as the vice president in charge of guest operations at a secluded ranch in northern New Mexico. The ranch…
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