Case Name: MARY FRANCES AUBREY vs. ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL COMMISSIONER
Court: West Virginia Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1985-02-15
Citations: 15 Ct. Cl. 258
Docket Number: CC-84-202
Parties: MARY FRANCES AUBREY vs. ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL COMMISSIONER
Judges: 
Reporter: Report of the West Virginia Court of Claims
Volume: 15
Pages: 258–259

Head Matter:
Opinion issued February 15, 1985
MARY FRANCES AUBREY vs. ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL COMMISSIONER
(CC-84-202)
Claimant appeared in person.
Henry C. Bias, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Claimant is an employee of respondent agency. On July 2, 1982, she was working as a clerk in Store 66 on Ohio Avenue in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The assistant manager of the store asked claimant to get a case of wine for a customer. The wine cases were stacked higher than claimant, and as she reached for the top case, it slipped, striking and breaking her glasses. A bill for $231.00 was admitted into evidence.
Claimant testified that it was part of her job duties to get cases of liquor for customers. She stated that she sometimes asked other employees for assistance, but did not on this occasion. No evidence was presented that the wine had been stacked improperly, or was in violation of respondent's regulations. Without such evidence, no negligence on the part of respondent or its employees is established, and the Court must, therefore, deny the claim.
Claim disallowed.