West Virginia Supreme Court, 1982

The court held that a supervisor who materially contributed to an employee’s retaliatory discharge could be personally liable even though he did not perform the firing, and that emotional-distress damages are recoverable for retaliatory discharge.

The court affirmed Goodnight’s conviction for attempted grand larceny and his sentence. It held that the indictment sufficiently described the larceny without specifying its location, the later attempted taking was not barred as part of the same transaction as the church-property larceny, the officers lawfully…