Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Harris

How courts have described this case

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

• “The . . . agreement that [the employer] would not discharge plaintiff without just cause was a thing of value to him, a safeguard against the loss and embarrassment to be expected from an arbitrary discharge.”
• “It is settled doctrine in [Virginia] that where no specific time is fixed for the duration of an employment, there is a rebuttable presumption that it is an employment at will, terminable at any time by either party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).