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KREUTZER v. MONTEREY COUNTY HERALD CO.

747 A.2d 358 (2000)

Edward A. KREUTZER; Charles R. Reinecker, Jr., and Kathy S. Reinecker, his wife, i/t/d/b/a Broughton News; Ernest W. Stephan; Thomas Wagner and Joan M. Wagner, his wife; John J. Delaney, Jr.; Alvar R. Erlandson and Lois J. Erlandson, his wife; Robert Brayer and Mariann Brayer, his wife; Daniel Bulford, Linda A. Bulford, his wife, Gregory Koenig, Kevin Walsh and Nancy Walsh, his wife, a partnership, t/d/b/a Brookline News; Michael Pendel and Susan Ieraci Pendel, his wife; Jerry M. Richard; Martin S. Feldman; Gregory Galandoo and Brenda Galandoo, his wife; David Paul Koenig; Gregory G. Koenig and Gina Bianco Koenig, his wife; James W. Schiedenhelm, Karen Schiedenhelm, his wife, and Pleasant Hills New, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation; Kenneth Walker Stephan; Suzanne M. Richard; Michael Ventrone and Frances M. Ventrone, his wife; John David O'Donnell; William W. Wills, Jr., and Virginia C. Wills, his wife; Richard J. McKenna, Sr., Carla A. McKenna, his wife; Paul V. McKenna, II and Margaret McKenna, his wife, Appellees, v. MONTEREY COUNTY HERALD COMPANY, f/k/a Pittsburgh Press Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 22, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. McCreary, Jr., Latrobe, Ernest E. Vargo, Cleveland, OH, for Monterey County Herald.

Brian P. Gottlieb, Harrisburg, for Amicus-PA Newspaper Assoc.

Richard B. Tucker, III, Gary P. Hunt, Thomas A. Shumaker, Pittsburgh, for Kreutzer, Reinecker, etc.

W. Thomas McGough, Jr., Debra H. Dermody, Pittsburgh, Donna M. Maus, for Post Gazette.

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN and SAYLOR, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice.

The issue in this case is whether written contracts which allow either party to terminate the contract at will are subject to a claim of equitable estoppel, the essence of which is that the words or conduct of the terminating party preclude that party from using the written contract to deny the other party's claim of detrimental reliance and damages.

In 1996, appellees, former distributors of ...

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