WATSON v. IDAHO FALLS CONSOL. HOSPITALS

No. 15840.

720 P.2d 632 (1986)

111 Idaho 44

Bernetta WATSON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. IDAHO FALLS CONSOLIDATED HOSPITALS, INC., and Sandra Covert, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

June 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lary S. Larson, Idaho Falls, for defendants-appellants.

Dean Charles Brandstetter and John Ohman (argued), Idaho Falls, for plaintiff-respondent.


SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered following a jury trial and verdict in favor of plaintiff-respondent Watson in her action for wrongful discharge from employment and from denial of a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. We affirm.

Watson was hired as a nurse's aide by defendant-appellant Idaho Falls Consolidated Hospitals, Inc., in 1975. Although Watson was given an employee handbook when she was hired, no written...

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