State of West Virginia v. Billy Joe McFarland Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff had presented sufficient evidence to sustain causes of action for contract and unjust enrichment, but granting defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict on the unjust enrichment, since otherwise there would have been a duplicative, recovery
• explaining that negligent misrepresentation applies to false information between parties of business transaction
• finding a grant of summary judgment to employer improper where employee advanced a neg ligent misrepresentation claim based on employer’s withholding of critical information relating to employees’ retirement benefits
• oral agreement for payment of retirement benefits until death of employee enforceable under the statute because the employee could die in less than one year
• unjust enrichment claim duplicative when plaintiff had prevailed on breach of contract claim
• requiring “justifiable” reliance by the plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).