WINDSOR v. AEGIS SERVICES, LTD.

Civ. A. No. 88-0264-R.

691 F.Supp. 956 (1988)

Carl W. WINDSOR, Jr., Plaintiff, v. AEGIS SERVICES, LTD., Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

August 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cole Gayle, Jr., Hubard, Marchant, Samuels & Gayle, Richmond, Va., for plaintiff.

Joseph S. Bambacus, Bambacus & Associates, James W. Hopper, Warren H. Britt, Parvin, Wilson, Barnett & Hopper, Richmond, Va., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

This employment contract dispute presents the question, as yet unsettled in Virginia, whether an oral employment contract providing for dismissal for "just cause" is unenforceable under the Statute of Frauds. More specifically, the question is whether such a contract can be performed within a year and thereby escape the bar of the Statute of Frauds. It cannot; a dismissal for cause, which can occur within...

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