City of Ingleside v. Kneuper

JONES, Justice.

This appeal arose out of a suit filed by George Kneuper, appellee, under what has been dubbed the Texas “Whistleblower Act,” Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 6252-16a (Supp.1989), after he was fired from his job as Director of Public Works for the City of Ingleside, appellant. The trial court initially reinstated Kneuper to his job through the granting of a temporary injunction. Following a trial on the merits in which the jury answered all questions in Kneuper’s favor, the trial court granted judgment for Kneuper for damages and permanent in-junctive relief. We will modify the…