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McCAUSLAND v. MASON COUNTY BD. OF ED.

No. 80-1780.

649 F.2d 278 (1981)

Bright McCAUSLAND, Appellant, v. MASON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, a corporation; Harry Siders, individually and as President of said corporation; Bill Brady and Robert Adkins, individually and together with Harry Siders, constituting a majority of said Board of Education; Donald C. Kingery, Esq., individually and as counsel for said corporation as well as prosecuting attorney in Mason County, West Virginia; and Walter Villars, and Nellie Preston, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Alan Sherman, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Donald R. Wilson, Preiser & Wilson, Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for appellant.

Jerry N. Ragan, Huntington, W. Va. (John F. Wood, Jr., Wood, Grim & Delp, Huntington, W. Va., on brief), John J. Nesius, S. Charleston, W. Va. (Davis & Nesius, S. Charleston, W. Va., on brief), (David Nibert, Kingery & Nibert, Charles J. Hyer, Hyer & Littlepage; R. Michael Shaw, Shaw & Stein, Point Pleasant, W. Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge, and HALL, Circuit Judge.

WINTER, Chief Judge:

Bright McCausland appeals from the judgment of the district court dismissing his complaint under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1986 (1976), because the West Virginia statute of limitations barred his claims. We think the district court applied the statute properly and affirm.

McCausland filed his federal complaint over five years after the Mason County Board of Education discharged him from his post as a high school...

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