Court Opinion

ID: 9715481
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:06:46.737064+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:35.192531
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SULLIVAN, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
I concur that the statute of frauds barred plaintiffs action on an oral contract. I would, however, find that plaintiff is entitled to a trial on the wrongful discharge claim. Exactly the same principle that prohibits an employer from firing an employee for filing a worker's compensation claim, Frampton v. Central Ind. Gas Co., 260 Ind. 249, 253, 297 N.E.2d 425, 428 (1973), should prohibit an employer from firing an employee who refuses to fire a subordinate employee for filing a worker's compensation claim.