176 W. Va. 727 - Ash v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 170 W. Va. 162 - Lee-Norse Co. v. Rutledge · 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 166 W. Va. 675 - Kisamore v. Rutledge · 139 W. Va. 75 - Bennett v. Hix · 169 W. Va. 520 - Kirk v. Cole
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“Findings of fact by the Board of Review of the West Virginia Department of Employment Security, in an unemployment compensation case, should not be set aside unless such findings are plainly wrong; however, the plainly wrong doctrine does not apply to conclusions of law by the Board of Review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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