# Gates v. Life of Montana Insurance

> Montana Supreme Court · January 5, 1982 · 196 Mont. 178

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8027152

## Case

- **Full name:** MARLENE S. GATES, and v.LIFE OF MONTANA INSURANCE COMPANY, a montana corporation, and
- **Court:** Montana Supreme Court
- **Decided:** January 5, 1982
- **Citations:** 196 Mont. 178; 638 P.2d 1063; 118 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2071; 1982 Mont. LEXIS 694
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Weber
- **Judges:** Daly, Haswell, Morrison, Sheehy, Weber
- **Cited by:** 78 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing applied to employment contracts

## Opinion text

JUSTICE WEBER
specially concurs:
I concur with the holding of the foregoing majority opinion in all respects. In addition, I would point out that in the course of further proceedings the employee handbook would be properly admissible as evidence to be considered in determining whether the respondent had breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing owing to the appellant.

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