PINE RIVER STATE BANK v. METTILLE

No. C8-82-543.

333 N.W.2d 622 (1983)

PINE RIVER STATE BANK, Appellant, v. Richard E. METTILLE, Sr., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

April 29, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meagher, Geer, Markham, Anderson, Adamson, Flaskamp & Brennan, Robert E. Salmon, O.C. Adamson II and J. Richard Bland, Minneapolis, Lundrigan, Hendricks & Lundrigan and Wilbert E. Hendricks, Pine River, for appellant.

Van Drake & Van Drake and Stephen R. Van Drake, Brainerd, for respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


SIMONETT, Justice.

An employee hired for an indefinite, at-will term claims his discharge was in breach of his employment contract as subsequently modified by an employee handbook. A jury awarded the employee damages and the employer appeals from a denial of its post-trial motions. We affirm.

In early 1978 respondent Richard Mettille, then unemployed, nearly 48 years of age, married and living in St. Paul, sent his resume to the appellant Pine River State...

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