Horgan v. Industrial Design Corp.

STEWART, Justice:

On this appeal plaintiff Jack Horgan, a former employee of the defendant corporations, seeks reversal of the trial court’s adverse summary judgment in an action to recover losses stemming from the termination of plaintiff’s employment.

Plaintiff began employment as an engineer with defendant Abe W. Mathews Engineering Corporation (AWMECO), a Minnesota corporation, in October 1957. . In 1976 AWMECO acquired defendant Industrial Design Corporation (IDC), a Utah corporation. To assist in the supervision of this newly acquired subsidiary, the AWME-CO directors decided to transfer…