Case ID: wv-ct-cl_3/html/0013-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "G. H. A. KUNST, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 431-S
    A. R. HOLBERT, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed January 15, 1945
    
   G. H. A. KUNST, Judge.

In October, 1944, claimant’s Chevrolet truck loaded.with logs, broke through Stockton Run No. 35-8 bridge, in Calhoun county, West Virginia, and fell into the creek. The bridge was unsafe by reason of a rotten sill, and no notice of capacity of bridge or warning signs were posted.

The cost of repairing the damage so occasioned amounted to $179.93, for which claim is made. Respondent recommends and the attorney general approves its payment.

An award of one hundred and. seventy-nine dollars and ninety-three cents ($179.93) is made to claimant.