Lyon v. Bennington College Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• indicating claims against a corporate officer for interfering with a contract are part of tort law rather than contract law
• conversion action against college for taking of tenure of professor not maintainable because “contractual rights, which are personal and without marketability” are not goods that can be converted
• faculty member’s claim against officers of college for inducing college to break its contract with him presented viable tort claim; factual determination as to whether defendants acted within scope of employment when doing alleged acts must be determined at trial
• “Tenure” is not a “property interest” subject to conversion.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).