Adkins v. Kelly's Creek Railroad Company

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FIELD, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Ray Leonard Adkins, sued defendant, Kelly’s Creek Railroad Company, in this Court, alleging a cause of action under F.E.L.A. for an injury sustained by plaintiff on May 8, 1952, in the course of his employment with defendant railroad and, additionally, a cause of action for breach of an alleged oral contract between plaintiff and defendant wherein defendant promised to provide plaintiff with lifetime employment. A motion by defendant for summary judgment was granted as to the F.E.L.A. claim since I concluded that if the contract for lifetime…