Case ID: wv-ct-cl_3/html/0222-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MERRIMAN S. SMITH, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(No. 535-S
    VALVOLINE PIPE LINES COMPANY, Claimant. v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed July 9, 1946
    
   MERRIMAN S. SMITH, Judge.

On February 3, 1946, state road commission employees were working on secondary road No. 7 in Pleasants county. West Virginia, building a retaining wall which necessitated blasting out the rock for a foundaton. One of the blasts threw stone over the hillside and broke the two-inch oil pipe line belonging to the claimant, causing a wastage of 20.54 barrels of oi.1. A claim for the 20.54 barrels of oil at $2.94, amounting to $60.39. together with labor and material for repairs to the pipe line, in the amount of $34.80, making a total of $95.19, is presented for the loss sustained.

Upon investigation and examination by the state road coin-mission the payment is recommended by the head of the department and concurred in by the attorney general.

An award is hereby authorized in the amount of ninety-five dollars and nineteen cents ($95.19) to the Valvoline Pipe Lines Company, by order of this court.