Case ID: wv-ct-cl_12/html/0199-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "RULEY, JUDGE:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Opinion issued October 23, 1978
    
    PEGGY KEYSER vs. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS
    (No. CC-78-38)
    
      Peggy Keyser, the claimant, in person.
    
      Nancy J. Aliff, Attorney at Law, for the respondent.
   RULEY, JUDGE:

On October 27, 1977, the claimant was lawfully driving east on 1-64 towards Huntington when her car ran over a sign lying flat on the roadway, which sign flipped up and damaged her automobile’s exhaust system in the sum of $113.56.

The Court finds that the sign (a long, narrow sign with yellow and black diagonal stripes, like those used by respondent) was respondent’s property; that leaving it upon the travelled portion of the highway constituted negligence on respondent’s part; and that an award therefore should be made to the claimant in the amount of $113.56.

Award of $113.56.