Title: Romack v. Public Service Co. of Indiana
Citation: 511 N.E.2d 1024
Docket Number: 22S04-8708-CV-765
State: Indiana
Issuer: Indiana Supreme Court
Date: August 20, 1987

511 N.E.2d 1024 (1987)
Jay H. ROMACK, Appellant (Plaintiff below),
v.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF INDIANA, Appellee (Defendant below).
No. 22S04-8708-CV-765.

Supreme Court of Indiana.
August 20, 1987.
Rehearing Denied October 29, 1987.
William H. Sparrenberger, Indianapolis, for appellant.
Frank T. Lewis, Public Service Co. of Indiana, Inc., Plainfield, Baker &amp; Daniels, Michael R. Maine, Gayle L. Skolnik, Indianapolis, Cooper, Cox, Jacobs, Reed &amp; Barlow, Curtis M. Jacobs, Madison, for appellee.
DICKSON, Justice.
This case is before us on petition to transfer from the Court of Appeals, *1025 which summarized the issues and facts as follows.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's grant of summary judgment. Romack v. Public Service Company of Indiana, Inc. (1986), Ind. App., 499 N.E.2d 768. Judge Conover dissented and filed a separate opinion urging modification of prior *1026 case law under the facts presented in this case. As applied to plaintiff's action based on alleged breach of employment contract, we agree. Upon this point we now expressly adopt and incorporate by reference the separate opinion of Judge Conover pursuant to Appellate Rule 11(B)(3). However, this Court declines to adopt that portion of Judge Conover's separate opinion which addresses the issue of punitive damages. Such issue was not involved in the trial court's grant of summary judgment, nor in the majority opinion of the Court of Appeals, nor raised by appellant's petition to transfer.
Transfer is granted. The trial court's grant of summary judgment is affirmed except as to plaintiff's cause of action asserting breach of employment contract, wherein summary judgment is now reversed. This cause is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings accordingly.
SHEPARD, C.J., and DeBRULER, GIVAN and PIVARNIK, JJ., concur.