SHAW v. BURCHFIELD

No. 55061.

481 So.2d 247 (1985)

Miles L. SHAW v. Charles BURCHFIELD, Charles E. Thomas, Everett Stringer, Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company, Mississippi Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation, and Marion County Farm Bureau (Aal).

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dixon L. Pyles, Pyles & Tucker, Jackson, for appellant.

Sam E. Scott, William T. May, Heidelberg, Woodliff & Franks, Jackson, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This case presents us with an all too familiar scenario upon the landscape of corporate America. A man invests twenty-six years of his life in serving a relatively large, and always impersonal, corporate organization, in this case an insurance company. Used up, he is discharged on ten days notice, no cause given and, it is contended, none required. In the end, the attendant rights and burdens are imposed by law, not...

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