HYDE v. LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL

Nos. 76-1922 and 76-1923.

572 F.2d 988 (1978)

L. D. HYDE, Appellee, v. LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL (formerly known as Region B Planning and Economic Development Commission), Appellant, and Ed Todd, James T. Ledford, William M. Ives, Charles H. Campbell, Boyce A. Whitmire, R. Curtis Ratcliff, William Powell, J. R. Henderson, W. A. Baxter, Hugh H. Roberson, W. J. Cathey, Jr., Francis E. Field, L. T. Sprinkle, Elizabeth Maxwell, George Penland, Margaret Slagle, Eugene C. Ochsenreiter, Jr., Defendants. L. D. HYDE, Appellant, v. LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL (formerly known as Region B Planning and Economic Development Commission), Ed Todd, James T. Ledford, William M. Ives, Charles H. Campbell, Boyce A. Whitmire, R. Curtis Ratcliff, William Powell, J. R. Henderson, W. A. Baxter, Hugh H. Roberson, W. J. Cathey, Jr., Francis E. Field, L. T. Sprinkle, Elizabeth Maxwell, George Penland, Margaret Slagle, Eugene C. Ochsenreiter, Jr., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald C. Brown, Asheville, N. C. (Ronald W. Howell, Marshall, N. C., on brief), for appellant in No. 76-1922 and appellee in No. 76-1923.

Robert B. Long, Jr., Asheville, N. C. (Long, McClure & Dodd, Asheville, N. C., on brief), for appellee in No. 76-1922 and appellant L. D. Hyde in No. 76-1923.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This is a civil action for breach of an employment contract. Jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship.

Plaintiff Hyde was the Executive Director of the defendant Land-Of-The-Sky Regional Council (hereinafter Council) from March 1972 until his termination on September 5, 1973. Defendant is a regional planning commission organized under the laws of North Carolina.1

In March 1972, plaintiff...

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