ALLEN v. CROWELL-COLLIER PUB. CO.


21 N.Y.2d 403 (1968)

Lillian Allen et al., Appellants, v. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor A. Kovner, Sydney D. Bierman, John C. Lankenau and Allen G. Schwartz for appellants.

Terence F. Gilheany and Peter Megargee Brown for respondent.

Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING and JASEN concur; Judge BREITEL taking no part.


Chief Judge FULD.

The plaintiffs (upwards of 150 in number) are former employees who had worked in the defendant's plant in Springfield, Ohio. Discharged in December, 1956, when the defendant suspended publication of Collier's and Woman's Home Companion, they sue for severance and retirement pay. It is their claim that the defendant had "established and announced to its employees, including plaintiffs...

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