Case Name: CHARLES J. KUCERA and JOSEPHINE ANN KUCERA, Claimants vs. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent
Court: West Virginia Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1968-11-08
Citations: 7 Ct. Cl. 179
Docket Number: No. D-38
Parties: CHARLES J. KUCERA and JOSEPHINE ANN KUCERA, Claimants vs. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent
Judges: 
Reporter: Report of the West Virginia Court of Claims
Volume: 7
Pages: 179–179

Head Matter:
Opinion issued November 8, 1968
CHARLES J. KUCERA and JOSEPHINE ANN KUCERA, Claimants vs. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent
(No. D-38)
No appearance for Claimants
Thomas P. O’Brien, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert R. Harpold, Jr., Esq., for the Respondent

Opinion:
Petroplus, Judge:
Claimants have filed a claim for replacing evonymous vines and a Holly tree which were wrongfully cut down and removed by employees of the State Road Commission on the private property owned by the Claimants located in Weirton, Hancock County, West Virginia. It has been stipulated between couhsel for the Claimants and counsel for the State Road Commission that the total amount of damages suffered by the Claimants is $75.00, based on an estimate filed with the Stipulation. The State has made a thorough investigation into the facts and agrees that the State Road Commission wrongfully came upon the property of the Claimants and cut down the evonymous ground covering and the Holly tree.
It is, therefore, the opinion of this Court that the Claimants be, and they are hereby awarded the sum of $75.00.
Claim allowed in the amount of $75.00.