Court Opinion

ID: 9450246
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:39:38.367044+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:12.879052
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HAYS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I dissent from that part of the decision of the court which affirms the granting of damages for a period of one month after the employer terminated the contract.
In Town & Country House & Home Service, Inc. v. Newbery, 3 N.Y.2d 554, 170 N.Y.S.2d 328, 147 N.E.2d 724 (1958), the court held that an employment at will “legally required no notice [of termination] to be given, and rendered the employment terminable at any time at the option of either party.”
I believe that we are required to follow the law of New York as it is, however sympathetic we may be to the “general” law as the gr.eat text writers would like it to be.