BOYLE v. PETRIE STORES CORP.


136 Misc.2d 380 (1987)

Michael J. Boyle, Plaintiff, v. Petrie Stores Corporation, Defendant.

Supreme Court, Trial Term, New York County.

Errors revised, March 5, 1987.

Supplemental decision, May 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shearman & Sterling (Charles C. Parlin, Jr., and Carol A. Jablonski of counsel), for plaintiff. Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon (Louis Nizer and Neil A. Pollio of counsel), for defendant.


EDWARD J. GREENFIELD, J.

This is an action for wrongful discharge, but unlike many such cases which have besieged the courts of late, this one involves an executive employee who in fact had a carefully worked out written contract, and now, claiming a breach, insists on a literal application of that contract.

In 1982 Milton Petrie, chairman of the board of the Petrie Stores Corporation, was 79 years...

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