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INGLE v. GLAMORE MOTOR SALES

73 N.Y.2d 183 (1989)

Phillip B. Ingle, Appellant, v. Glamore Motor Sales, Inc., et al., Respondents. (Action No. 1.) Phillip B. Ingle, Appellant, v. James H. Glamore et al., Respondents. (Action No. 2.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic Block and Lane T. Maxson for appellant.

Bradley E. Rock and Patricia C. Delaney for respondents.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, ALEXANDER and TITONE concur with Judge BELLACOSA; Judge HANCOCK, JR., dissents and votes to reverse in a separate opinion in which Judge KAYE concurs.

BELLACOSA, J.

Without a contract for a definite period of employment or some other legally recognized limitation on an employer's unqualified right to discharge an at-will employee who also happens to be a minority shareholder in a close corporation, there is no insulation under the contractual and employment relationships alleged in this case from being fired or from having invoked a stock-repurchase option...

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