Hartbarger v. Frank Paxton Co.

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• holding that an offer or promise must be sufficiently explicit to give rise to reasonable expectations, in order to create an implied employment contract
• holding that the evidence of oral and written statements, business practice of retaining employees for a long time, and retirement was not an offer or promise “sufficiently explicit to establish an implied contract”
• noting that evidence that employer normally fired employees only for cause does not in itself create \for cause\ employment
• noting that evidence that employer normally fired employees only for cause does not in itself create “for cause” employment
• reversing jury finding of an implied contract because totality of evidence was insufficient to support that conclusion
• reversing jury finding of an implied contract because totality of evidence was insufficient to support that conclusion

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