CANNEY v. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.


353 Mass. 158 (1967)

228 N.E.2d 723

MICHAEL P. CANNEY vs. NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon F. Sargent (Raymond F. Burke with him) for the defendant.

James M. Walsh (James F. Sullivan with him) for the plaintiff.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


KIRK, J.

The plaintiff brought a bill in equity against the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (the company) and the International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers (the union) seeking specific performance of an alleged oral contract to employ the plaintiff for life and to assume all of the plaintiff's medical expenses resulting from an injury received by him in the course of his employment. The bill was dismissed...

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