Hogue v. Cecil I. Walker MacHinery Co.

MILLER, Justice:

This appeal was brought by the defendant below, Cecil I. Walker Machinery Company (Walker) from a final judgment entered on December 11, 1991, by the Circuit Court of Wood County, which affirmed a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff below, Charles E. Hogue, in an action for wrongful discharge. The plaintiff claimed that his discharge was in violation of Walker’s personnel policies set forth in its employee handbook dated February 1, 1981. By special interrogatories the jury found, at the time the plaintiff was terminated, an employment agreement existed “containing a…