HAEGELE v. SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

No. 26903.

409 F.2d 1353 (1969)

Walter HAEGELE and Judith Eisenbeiss, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 28, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Groce, Hebdon, Fahey & Smith, Ray A. Weed, San Antonio, Tex., English, Cianciulli, Reisman & Peirez, David H. Peirez, Mineola, N. Y., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Joe P. Smyer, Paul H. Smith, Cox, Smith, Smith, Hale & Guenther, San Antonio, Tex., for defendant-appellee; Richard S. Woodbury, San Antonio, Tex., of counsel.

Before GEWIN, McGOWAN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants are research scientists who were hired by appellee, a non-profit research institute, on terms which failed to prescribe any fixed period for their employment. Appellants assert that, even if their employment be regarded in law as normally terminable at will by appellee, that rule does not obtain here because the reason for their termination was contrary to public policy. That reason was, they say, that appellant Haegele, although working full...

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