Freidhoff v. Board of School Directors of Conemaugh Valley School District

CRAIG, President Judge.

Wilfred Freidhoff, et al., teachers, appeal an order of the Court of Common Pleas, Cambria County, denying their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and also their alternative motion for new trial, following a jury verdict in favor of the Board of School Directors of Conemaugh Valley School District, board. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

The general question arises from the fact that, after a school strike which resulted in thirty-three lost days of instruction and after a weather emergency eliminating eleven more days of instruction, the…