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대법원 91다41750

Confirmation of Invalidity of Dismissal (해고무효확인)해고무효확인

Decided1993. 05. 25. Court대법원Case reversed and remanded (파기환송) — ultimately the worker's claim was barred due to violation of the good faith principle, despite the dismissal being substantively unfair.
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When a business is transferred to a new owner (영업양도), the employment relationship of a worker who was already dismissed before the transfer does not carry over to the new employer (양수인). The Court also held that different types of dismissal—such as dismissal by administrative authority (직권해임) and disciplinary dismissal (징계해임)—cannot be converted into one another, since each has distinct grounds and procedures. While a resignation submitted under duress or without genuine intent (비진의 사직서) followed by voluntary retirement (의원면직) can constitute unfair dismissal (부당해고), the worker's lawsuit filed nine years after the dismissal was ultimately dismissed for violating the principle of good faith (신의칙).

Key takeaways
  • Case사건: 영업양도 전에 해고된 근로자가 9년 후 양수회사를 상대로 해고무효확인 소송을 제기한 사건
  • Outcome결과: 영업양도 시 이미 해고된 근로자와의 근로관계는 양수인에게 승계되지 않고, 9년 후 제기된 소송은 신의칙 위배로 기각
  • Lesson교훈: 부당해고 소송은 가능한 빨리 제기해야 하며, 영업양도 시에는 실제 근무 중인 근로자만 승계됨
Issues
  • Whether the employment relationship of a worker dismissed before a business transfer (영업양도) is succeeded by the new owner (양수인)
  • Whether administrative dismissal (직권해임) and disciplinary dismissal (징계해임) can be converted into each other
  • Whether a voluntary retirement (의원면직) based on a resignation letter submitted without genuine intent constitutes unfair dismissal
  • Whether filing a lawsuit for confirmation of invalid dismissal nine years after the dismissal violates the principle of good faith (신의칙)
Key reasoning

Under Korean labor law, when a business is transferred, only the employment relationships of workers who are actually working for the company as of the date of the transfer agreement are automatically succeeded by the new employer. A worker who had already been dismissed before the transfer is not covered by this succession, since there is no ongoing employment relationship to transfer. Additionally, the Court clarified that dismissal by administrative order (직권해임) and disciplinary dismissal (징계해임) are legally distinct actions with different justifications and procedural requirements, meaning an employer cannot simply relabel one as the other after the fact. Although the worker's resignation was found to have been submitted involuntarily—making the subsequent voluntary retirement (의원면직) legally equivalent to an unfair dismissal—the Court still dismissed the claim because the lawsuit was filed nine years after the dismissal occurred, which violates the principle of good faith (신의칙) that requires legal claims to be raised within a reasonable time.

Summary of Decision (English, AI translation)

a. Where a company enters into a contract to acquire part of another company's business division and agrees to comprehensively succeed to the rights and obligations concerning the employees working in that business division along with its physical facilities, the employment relationships with the relevant employees are, in principle, succeeded to by the transferee of the business. However, the employment relationships thus succeeded to mean only the employment relationships with employees who are actually working in that business division as of the date of contract conclusion, and do not extend to the employment relationships with employees who had worked in the relevant business division prior to the date of contract conclusion but were dismissed or discharged from office and are disputing the validity of such dismissal or discharge disposition.

b. Ex officio dismissal, ex officio suspension from office, and disciplinary dismissal are all provisions concerning status-related measures unfavorable to an employee, and since each differs in its grounds and procedures, even if one disposition is void due to a lack of justifiable grounds or procedure, it cannot take effect as another disposition merely because the requirements of justifiable grounds and procedure for that other disposition happen to be satisfied.

c. A case holding that processing an employee's discharge as a voluntary resignation, while knowing that the letter of resignation was not submitted based on the employee's genuine intent, constitutes a void unfair dismissal.

d. A case holding that a lawsuit seeking confirmation of the invalidity of a dismissal, filed nine years after the plaintiff was dismissed and discharged by voluntary resignation and had received retirement allowances, etc. without reserving any objection or raising any condition, violates the principle of good faith or the doctrine of estoppel.

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[Plaintiffs, Appellees]

[Defendant, Appellant] Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (문화방송) Co., Ltd., Litigation Representative Attorneys Lee Jae-hoo and 2 others

[Judgment Below] Seoul High Court Judgment 90Na32706, dated October 9, 1991

[Order]

The judgment below is reversed, and the case is remanded to the Seoul High Court.

[Reasoning]

The grounds of appeal are examined.

As to Ground 1

1. According to the record, the court below found, as undisputed facts, that on March 30, 1981, the Defendant Company comprehensively transferred its newspaper publishing business, one of the Defendant Company's business divisions at the time, to the non-party Kyunghyang Shinmun Foundation (사단법인 경향신문사), and that the Plaintiffs had been engaged in the newspaper business division of the Defendant Company. The court below then held that, in the case of a business transfer, where an employee objects to the transfer of the employment relationship, the employment relationship is not transferred to the transferee but continues to exist between the employee and the transferor, and since there was no material showing that the Plaintiffs had consented to the transfer of the employment relationship pursuant to the said business transfer, the employment relationship between the Plaintiffs and the Defendant Company must be deemed to continue without having been transferred to the said Kyunghyang Shinmun. On this basis, the court below rejected the Defendant's preliminary objection on the merits that the Plaintiffs' claim for confirmation in this case lacked standing to sue, which was premised on the comprehensive succession of the employment relationship between the Plaintiffs and the Defendant Company by the said Kyunghyang Shinmun.

2.
Where a contract is concluded to acquire part of another company's business division, and it is agreed that the rights and obligations concerning the employees working in that business division shall also be comprehensively succeeded to along with the physical facilities, the employment relationship with the relevant employees is, in principle, succeeded to by the business transferee (see this Court's Decision 91Da40276, dated July 14, 1992). However, the employment relationships thus succeeded to mean only the employment relationships with employees who were actually working in that business division as of the date of conclusion of the contract, and do not extend to succeeding the employment relationship with an employee who had worked in the relevant business division prior to the date of conclusion of the contract but had been dismissed or discharged, and who is disputing the validity of such dismissal or discharge.

Accordingly, according to the description in Defendant's Exhibit No. 1, it is recognized that on March 30, 1981, when the said Kyunghyang Shinmun concluded the business transfer contract concerning the newspaper publishing business with the Defendant Company, it was agreed (Article 1) that the said Kyunghyang Shinmun would comprehensively succeed to the personnel among the Defendant Company's employees who were engaged in the newspaper division, and would comprehensively succeed to all rights and obligations as employer concerning the status and treatment of the succeeded employees. However, the employment relationships comprehensively succeeded to by the said Kyunghyang Shinmun pursuant to the said agreement are limited to the employment relationships with employees who were actually working in the Defendant Company's newspaper publishing division at the time of the conclusion of the said contract, and the employment relationships with the Plaintiffs, who had already been dismissed by the Defendant Company and were not working at that time, are not succeeded to.

Accordingly, although it cannot be said that the court below's view—that the reason the employment relationship between the Plaintiffs and the Defendant Company was not transferred to the said Kyunghyang Shinmun was the absence of the Plaintiffs' consent—was appropriate, the court below's rejection of the Defendant's above objection, which was premised on the transfer of the employment relationship between the Plaintiffs and the Defendant Company to the said Kyunghyang Shinmun, is ultimately justified, and it cannot be said that there is an illegality in the judgment, as argued in the grounds of appeal, of misapprehending the rules of evidence and erroneously finding facts, or of misunderstanding the legal principles concerning the transfer of employment relationships upon comprehensive business transfer, such as to have affected the judgment. This ground of appeal is without merit.

As to Grounds 3 and 4

According to the reasoning of the judgment below, the court below, based on the evidence cited, found the following facts through the process indicated in its judgment: that on June 27, 1980, the Defendant issued a dismissal disposition against Plaintiffs 1, 2, 3, and 4; and that as for the remaining Plaintiffs excluding the above Plaintiffs, the Defendant sequentially accepted their resignation letters and processed them as voluntary resignations, even while knowing that the resignation letters submitted by these Plaintiffs were not submitted based on their true intent.

Regarding the disciplinary dismissal of Plaintiffs 1, 2, 3, and 4, the court below held that the conduct of the said Plaintiffs, which the Defendant relied upon as grounds for discipline, was difficult to regard as falling under "when one has damaged the dignity or honor of the company" as provided in Article 47, Paragraph 3 of the Defendant Company's Personnel Regulations, and further held that even if legitimate grounds for discipline arose against the disciplined person after the fact, an unjust disciplinary disposition rendered before the occurrence of such grounds for discipline is not thereby ratified as a legitimate disciplinary disposition. On these grounds, the court below determined that each of the above disciplinary dismissals of the said Plaintiffs was invalid as an unfair dismissal without just cause.

The court below then examined the Defendant's argument that, even if the dismissal dispositions against the said Plaintiffs were invalid, since the said Plaintiffs received final and conclusive guilty judgments after the said dismissal dispositions, the dismissals were valid as ex officio dismissal dispositions pursuant to Article 37, Item 1 of the said Personnel Regulations, or at least were valid as leave-of-absence dispositions under Article 39, Item 7 of the said Personnel Regulations. The court below rejected this argument of the Defendant on the ground that the ex officio dismissal, ex officio leave of absence, and disciplinary dismissal are all provisions concerning status-related measures unfavorable to employees, each with different grounds and procedures, such that where one disposition is invalid due to lack of just cause or due process, it cannot take effect as another disposition even if the requirements of just cause and due process for that other disposition are satisfied.

Furthermore, regarding the voluntary resignation dispositions concerning the remaining Plaintiffs excluding the above four Plaintiffs, the court below determined that each of the said Plaintiffs' declarations of intent to resign constituted declarations of intent not made in earnest (non-genuine declarations of intent), and that the Defendant Company, as the counterparty, accepted these while knowing this fact; therefore, the act of terminating the employment contract relationship in the form of voluntary resignation based on an invalid declaration of intent to resign is, in substance, the termination of the employment contract relationship by the unilateral intent of the Defendant Company as the employer, and accordingly each of the said voluntary resignation dispositions, notwithstanding their form, constitutes in substance unfair dismissal and is invalid.

Upon examining the relevant evidence against the record, the above findings and determinations of the court below are justified, and it cannot be said that the judgment below contains an illegality, as argued in the grounds of appeal, of misunderstanding the legal principles concerning Article 47, Paragraph 3 of the Defendant Company's Personnel Regulations, the legal principles concerning conversion of void acts, or the legal principles concerning non-genuine declarations of intent, or of erring in the interpretation of the Defendant Company's dismissal dispositions, or of misunderstanding the meaning of the collective resignation letters, or of violating the rules of evidence and thereby erroneously finding facts. These grounds of appeal are all without merit.

As to Ground 2

The court below examined the Defendant's argument that, since the Plaintiffs raised no objection whatsoever from the time of their dismissal or voluntary resignation until the filing of this lawsuit, received their retirement allowances without any reservation, and are currently active in other fields such that it appears they neither expect nor intend to actually work at the Defendant Company even if reinstated, the filing of this lawsuit disputing the validity of the dismissal and voluntary resignation nearly nine years after such dismissal and voluntary resignation violates the principle of good faith or the principle of estoppel. The court below rejected this argument of the Defendant on the ground that, even assuming the Defendant's argument were to be accepted, in light of the circumstances under which the Plaintiffs came to retire as indicated in the judgment and the political and social circumstances at the time, it was practically difficult for the Plaintiffs to expect reinstatement through judicial procedures or other means in the near future, and that under such circumstances, the fact that the Plaintiffs received retirement allowances and, while engaging in other fields for their livelihood, filed this lawsuit after a considerable period of time had elapsed, cannot be deemed to violate the principle of good faith or the principle of estoppel.

However, where an employee dismissed by the employer receives retirement allowances, etc. without raising any objection or reservation, it must be deemed, absent special circumstances, that the employee has acknowledged the dismissal disposition as valid; accordingly, filing a lawsuit disputing the validity of the dismissal after a long period of time has elapsed therefrom is deemed to violate the principle of good faith or the principle of estoppel (see this Court's Decisions 91Da29811, dated August 14, 1992; 92Da3809, dated July 10, 1992; and 92Da3670, dated May 26, 1992). Accordingly, if the circumstances alleged by the Defendant exist, the Plaintiffs' lawsuit in this case would be deemed to violate the principle of good faith or the principle of estoppel. Nevertheless, without conducting an examination into this matter, the court below, on the premise that it was practically difficult for the Plaintiffs to expect reinstatement through judicial procedures or other means in the near future in light of the circumstances under which the Plaintiffs came to retire as indicated in the judgment and the political and social circumstances at the time, lightly rejected the Defendant's above argument on the ground that this lawsuit, filed nearly nine years after the Plaintiffs' dismissal and voluntary resignation, did not violate the principle of good faith or the principle of estoppel. This ultimately constitutes an illegality in the judgment below of misunderstanding the legal principles concerning the principle of good faith or the principle of estoppel, such as to have affected the judgment, and accordingly, the ground of appeal pointing this out is meritorious.

Therefore, the judgment below is reversed, and the case is remanded to the court below, the opinions of the Justices involved being unanimous, and it is so decided as stated in the Order.

Justice Bae Man-woon (Presiding Justice), Choi Jae-ho, Kim Seok-su, Choi Jong-young (Justice in Charge)

【판결요지】

가. 다른 기업의 사업부문의 일부를 양수하는 계약을 체결하면서 그 물적 시설과 함께 그 사업부문에 근무하는 근로자들에 대한 권리의무도 함께 포괄승계받기로 약정한 경우에는 원칙적으로 해당 근로자와의 근로관계는 영업양수인에게 승계되는 것이지만 이때 승계되는 근로관계는 계약체결일 현재 실제로 그 영업부문에서 근무하고 있는 근로자와의 근로관계만을 의미하고 계약체결일 이전에 해당 영업부문에서 근무하다가 해고 또는 면직된 근로자로서 해고 및 면직처분의 효력을 다투는 근로자와의 근로관계까지 승계하는 것은 아니다.

나. 직권해임, 직권휴직 및 징계해임은 모두 근로자에게 불리한 신분적 조치를 규정한 것으로서 각 사유 및 절차를 달리하므로 어느 한 처분이 정당한 사유나 절차의 흠결로 인하여 무효인 경우 다른 처분으로서 정당한 사유 및 절차적 요건을 갖추었다 하더라도 다른 처분으로서의 효력을 발휘할 수 없다.

다. 사직서가 진의에 의하여 제출되는 것이 아님을 알면서도 의원면직처리한 것이 부당해고로서 무효라고 본 사례.

라. 이의의 유보나 조건의 제기 없이 퇴직금 등을 수령하고 해임 및 의원면직된 후 9년이 지나 제기된 해고무효확인소송이 신의칙이나 금반언의 원칙에 위배된다고 한 사례.

【참조조문】

가.나.다.라. 근로기준법 제27조 제1항 / 가. 상법 제41조 / 나. 민법 제138조 / 다. 민법 제107조 제1항 / 라. 민법 제2조

【참조판례】

가. 대법원 1992.7.14. 선고 91다40276 판결(공1992,2384) / 다.라. 대법원 1992.7.10. 선고 92다3809 판결(공1992,2363), 1992.8.14. 선고 91다29811 판결(공1992,2651), 1993.1.26. 선고 91다3868 판결(공1993,845) / 다. 대법원 1992.8.14. 선고 92다21036 판결(공1992,2667), 1993.2.9. 선고 91다44452 판결 (공1993,930), 1993.5.25. 선고 92다18603 판결(동지) / 라. 대법원 1992.11.13. 선고 92다13080 판결(공1993,97)

【주문】·【이유】 전문 4,191자 · 펼쳐 보기

【원고, 피상고인】

【피고, 상고인】 주식회사 문화방송 소송대리인 변호사 이재후 외 2인

【원심판결】 서울고등법원 1991.10.9. 선고 90나32706 판결

【주 문】

원심판결을 파기하고, 사건을 서울고등법원으로 환송한다.

【이 유】 상고이유에 대하여 본다.

제1점에 대하여

1. 기록에 의하면, 원심은 피고 회사가 1981.3.30. 당시 피고 회사 사업중의 하나인 신문발행사업을 소외 사단법인 경향신문사에 포괄적으로 양도한 사실 및 원고들이 피고 회사의 신문영업부문에서 종사하고 있었던 사실을 다툼이 없는 사실로 인정한 다음, 영업양도의 경우 근로관계의 이전에 관하여 근로자가 이의를 할 경우에는 근로관계는 양수인에게 이전되지 아니하고 양도인과 사이에 존속한다고 보아야 하는데 원고들이 위 영업양도에 따른 근로관계의 이전에 동의하였다고 볼 자료가 없으므로 원고들과 피고 회사 사이의 근로관계는 위 경향신문사에 이전되지 아니한 채 존속되고 있다고 보아야 한다면서 원고들과 피고 회사 사이의 근로관계가 위 경향신문사에 포괄승계되었음을 전제로 하여 원고들의 이 사건 확인청구가 소의 이익이 없다는 피고의 본안전 항변을 배척하였다.

2. 다른 기업의 사업부문의 일부를 양수하는 계약을 체결하면서 그 물적 시설과 함께 그 사업부문에 근무하는 근로자들에 대한 권리의무도 함께 포괄승계받기로 약정한 경우에는 원칙적으로 해당 근로자와의 근로관계는 영업양수인에게 승계되는 것이지만( 당원 1992.7.14. 선고 91다40276 판결 참조) 이때 승계되는 근로관계는 그 계약체결일 현재 실제로 그 영업부문에서 근무하고 있는 근로자와의 근로관계만을 의미한다고 할 것이고, 계약체결일 이전에 해당 영업부문에서 근무하다가 해고 또는 면직된 근로자로서 그 해고 및 면직처분의 효력을 다투는 근로자와의 근로관계까지 승계하는 것은 아니라고 할 것인바, 따라서 을 제1호증의 기재에 의하면 위 경향신문사가 1981.3.30. 피고 회사와 신문발행사업에 관한 영업양도계약을 체결하면서 피고 회사의 피용자중 신문부문에 종사하는 인원을 포괄승계받고, 승계한 피용자의 신분과 처우에 관한 사용자로서의 권리와 의무 일체를 포괄승계한다고(제1조) 약정한 사실은 인정되지만, 위 약정에 의하여 위 경향신문사가 포괄승계하는 근로관계는 위 계약체결 당시 피고 회사의 신문발행부문에서 실제로 근무하고 있던 근로자와의 근로관계뿐이고, 그 당시 이미 피고 회사에 의하여 해고되어 근무하고 있지 않던 원고들과의 근로관계는 승계되지 않는다고 할 것이다.

따라서 원심이 원고들과 피고 회사 사이의 근로관계가 위 경향신문사에 이전되지 않은 이유를 원고들의 동의가 없었기 때문이라고 본 것은 적절하다고 할 수 없으나 원고들과 피고 회사 사이의 근로관계가 위 경향신문사에 이전되었음을 전제로 하는 피고의 위 항변을 배척하였음은 결국 정당하고, 거기에 소론과 같은 채증법칙을 위반하여 사실을 오인하였거나 포괄적 영업양도시 근로관계의 이전에 관한 법리를 오해하여 판결에 영향을 미친 위법이 있다고 할 수 없다. 논지는 이유 없다.

제3 및 제4점에 대하여

원심판결 이유에 의하면, 원심은 거시증거에 의하여 판시와 같은 경위로 피고가 원고 1, 2, 3, 4에 대하여 1980. 6. 27. 해임처분을 한 사실 및 위 원고들을 제외한 나머지 원고들이 제출한 사직서가 위 원고들의 진의에 의하여 제출된 것이 아님을 알면서도 순차적으로 수리하여 의원면직처리한 사실을 인정한 다음, 원고 1, 2, 3, 4에 대한 징계해임에 관하여, 피고가 위 원고들의 징계사유로 삼은 위 원고들의 행위는 피고 회사의 인사규정 제47조 제3항 소정의 “사의 체면 또는 명예를 손상시켰을 때” 에 해당한다고 보기 어렵고, 또 사후에 징계대상자에게 정당한 징계사유가 발생하였다고 하더라도 그 징계사유 발생 전에 내려진 부당한 징계처분이 정당한 징계처분으로 추인되지는 않는다는 이유로 위 원고들에 대한 위 각 징계해임은 정당한 사유가 없는 부당해고로서 무효라고 판단하고, 이어서 위 원고들에 대한 해임처분이 무효라 하더라도 위 원고들이 위 해임처분 이후 유죄확정판결을 받았으므로 위 인사규정 제37조 제1호에 의하여 직권해임처분으로 유효하고 적어도 위 인사규정 제39조 제7호 소정의 휴직처분으로서 효력을 갖는다는 피고의 주장에 대하여, 위 직권해임, 직권휴직 및 징계해임은 모두 근로자에게 불리한 신분적 조치를 규정한 것으로서 각 그 사유 및 절차를 달리하므로 어느 한 처분이 정당한 사유나 절차의 흠결로 인하여 무효인 경우 다른 처분으로서 정당한 사유 및 절차적 요건을 갖추었다 하더라도 그 다른 처분으로서의 효력을 발휘할 수 없다는 이유로 피고의 위 주장을 배척하였고, 또 위 4명의 원고를 제외한 나머지 원고들에 대한 의원면직처분에 관하여, 위 원고들의 각 사직의 의사표시는 비진의 의사표시에 해당하고 그 상대방인 피고 회사도 이러한 점을 알면서 수리하였으므로 무효인 사직의 의사표시에 기하여 의원면직의 형식으로 근로계약관계를 종료시킨 행위는 실질적으로 사용자인 피고 회사의 일방적 의사에 의하여 근로계약관계를 종료시킨 것이라 할 것이어서 위 각 의원면직처분은 그 형식에 불구하고 실질적으로 모두 부당해고에 해당하여 무효라고 판단하였는 바, 관계증거를 기록과 대조하여 검토하면 원심의 위와 같은 인정판단은 정당하고, 원심판결에 소론과 같은 피고 회사 인사규정 제47조 제3항의 법리, 무효행위전환의 법리 또는 비진의 의사표시의 법리를 오해하였다거나 피고 회사의 해임처분의 해석을 그르치거나 일괄사표의 의미를 오해하고 채증법칙을 위반하여 사실을 잘못 인정한 위법이 있다고 할 수 없다. 논지는 모두 이유 없다.

제2점에 대하여

원심은, 원고들이 해임 또는 의원면직된 이후 이 사건 소송에 이르기까지 아무런 이의가 없었고 아무런 유보 없이 퇴직금을 수령하였으며 현재 다른 분야에서 활동하고 있어 복직되더라도 피고 회사에서 실제로 근무하리라고 기대하거나 근무할 생각이 없다고 보여지므로 위 해임 및 의원면직된 때로부터 9년 가까이 지난 후에야 그 효력을 다투는 이 사건 소를 제기하는 것은 신의칙이나 금반언의 원칙에 위배된다는 피고의 주장에 대하여, 설사 피고의 주장이 인정된다고 하더라도 판시와 같은 원고들이 퇴직하게 된 경위와 당시의 정치적, 사회적 상황으로 보아 원고들이 가까운 시일 내에 사법적 절차 등을 통해 복직이 되리라고 기대한다는 것은 사실상 어려웠다면서 이러한 사정 아래에서 원고들이 퇴직금을 수령하고 생계를 위해 다른 분야에서 활동하면서 상당한 기간이 지나 이 사건 소를 제기하였다고 하여 신의칙이나 금반언의 원칙에 위배된다고 볼 수 없다는 이유로 피고의 위 주장을 배척하였다.

그러나 사용자로부터 해고된 근로자가 퇴직금 등을 수령하면서 아무런 이의의 유보나 조건을 제기하지 않았다면 특별한 사정이 없는 한 해고처분을 유효한 것으로 인정하였다고 할 것이고 따라서 그로부터 오랜 기간이 지난 후에 해고의 효력을 다투는 소를 제기하는 것은 신의칙이나 금반언의 원칙에 위배된다고 할 것인바( 당원 1992.8.14. 선고 91다29811 판결; 1992.7.10. 선고 92다3809 판결; 1992.5.26. 선고 92다3670 판결 참조), 따라서 피고 주장과 같은 사유가 있다면 원고들의 이 사건 소송은 신의칙이나 금반언의 원칙에 위배된다고 할 것인데도, 원심은 이에 대한 심리를 하지 아니한 채 판시와 같은 원고들이 퇴직하게 된 경위와 당시의 정치적, 사회적 상황으로 보아 원고들이 가까운 시일 내에 사법적 절차 등을 통해 복직이 되리라고 기대한다는 것은 사실상 어려웠다는 전제 아래 원고들이 해임 및 의원면직된 후 9년이 다 지나서 제기된 이 사건 소송을 신의칙이나 금반언의 원칙에 위배되는 것은 아니라는 이유로 피고의 위 주장을 가볍게 배척하고 만 것은, 결국 원심판결에는 신의칙 또는 금반언의 원칙에 관한 법리를 오해하여 판결에 영향을 미친 위법이 있다고 할 것이며, 따라서 이 점을 지적하는 논지는 이유 있다.

그러므로 원심판결을 파기하고, 사건을 원심법원에 환송하기로 관여 법관의 의견이 일치되어 주문과 같이 판결한다.

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