Kirkpatrick v. Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority

WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon the appeal of E.L. Kirkpatrick, Jr., and similarly interested individual employees for the Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority (hereinafter referred to as MOVTA) and the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC (hereinafter referred to as the Steelworkers) pursuant to a July 1, 1991, final order of the Circuit Court of Wood County which denied the appellants’ petition for declaratory judgment. The appellants’ contend that 1) the lower court erred in failing to rule that West Virginia Code § 8-27-1 to -27 (1991), known as the West Virginia…