SCOTT v. LANE

80-476.

409 So.2d 791 (1982)

Dorothy Mae SCOTT v. Martin L. LANE, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Inge Johnstone of Johnstone & Newton, Mobile, for appellant.

Brock B. Gordon and Celia J. Collins of Johnstone, Adams, May, Howard & Hill, Mobile, for appellees Martin L. Lane, Edward L. Bryant, J. Russell Eubanks, Jr., Frank M. Dulaney and Mobile Anesthesiologists.

Frank McRight and Michael L. Fees of McRight, Sims, Rowe & Stewart, Mobile, for appellee Jeff Lousteau.


MADDOX, Justice.

What constitutes sufficient consideration to prevent a contract of permanent employment from being terminable at the will of the employer? That is the sole issue presented by this appeal.

Plaintiff/appellant, Dorothy Mae Scott, filed a suit against several doctors and Mobile Anesthesiologists, an unincorporated association, in which she claimed that they had offered her permanent employment if she would resign from her employment with two...

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