Mason County Board of Education v. State Superintendent of Schools

NEELY, Justice:

We granted this appeal in order to clarify the rules that apply to mitigation of damages in wrongful discharge cases. Appel-lee Bright McCausland was discharged from his position as a probationary school principal by the Mason County Board of Education on 1 September 1972. This case has been before the Court twice before, Mason County Board of Education v. State Superintendent of Schools, 160 W.Va. 348, 234 S.E.2d 321 (1977) and Ma*634son County Board of Education v. State Superintendent of Schools, 164 W.Va. 732, 274 S.E.2d 435 (1980). The first case was brought here by the Mason…