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KESTENBAUM v. PENNZOIL CO.

No. 16965.

766 P.2d 280 (1988)

108 N.M. 20

Louis KESTENBAUM, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant. v. PENNZOIL COMPANY and Vermejo Park Corporation, Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied January 13, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Harold L. Hensley, Jr., Stuart D. Shanor, James M. Hudson, Roswell, Ron D. Daugherty, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellants and cross-appellees.

Chris Key, Kacey DeNoi, Albuquerque, for plaintiff-appellee and cross-appellant.

Mountain States Legal Foundation, Constance E. Brooks, Paul Farley, Denver, Colo., Losee & Carson, Jerry Losee, Artesia, amicus curiae.

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...

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