Dumas v. Kessler & Maguire Funeral Home, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a supervisor’s statement to an employee that they would “retire together” did not alter the employee’s at-will employment status
• holding that continued employment with funeral home was insufficient to satisfy reliance in promissory estoppel claim where employee did not claim he turned down other offers
• stating that consideration for a promise of permanent employment must be regarded by the parties as such and must be the product of negotiation and mutual bargaining
• finding statement that employer and employee would “retire together” was not clear and definite promise
• finding statement that employer and employee would \retire together\ was not clear and definite promise
• plaintiff must turn down other offers of employment to establish the detrimental reliance required for a promissory estoppel claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).