Case ID: wv-ct-cl_3/html/0089-01.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. 466-S
    HARRY E. DAVIS, Claimant, v. STATE CONSERVATION COMMISSION, Respondent.
    
      Opinion filed July 12, 1945
    
   G. H. A. KUNST, Judge.

On January 17, 1945, on U. S. highway No. 119, at Five Block, near Sharpies, West Virginia, claimant’s automobile collided with a fallen telephone pole, rotted at the ground and broken by a heavy fall of snow, which extended into the road. It was a pole in a telephone line leading to a fire tower both belonging to respondent and which it had negligently failed to remove. The cost of repairing the resultant damage to the car was $29.64, for which claim is made.

Respondent having recommended and the attorney general having approved its payment an award of twenty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents ($29.64) is made to claimant.