Case Name: WHEELING PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent
Court: West Virginia Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1944-10-11
Citations: 2 Ct. Cl. 382
Docket Number: No. 399-S
Parties: WHEELING PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Report of the West Virginia Court of Claims
Volume: 2
Pages: 382–382

Head Matter:
(No. 399-S
WHEELING PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
Opinion filed October 11, 1944

Opinion:
G. H. A. KUNST, Judge.
On the 3 day of July, 1944, the operator of respondent's shovel 625-13 negligently left the shovel parked in* an unsafe position at the intersection of S bridge at Peter's Run, in Ohio county, West Virginia. The brakes of the shovel became released and the shovel ran downhill two hundred feet striking claimant's bus which was parked waiting for passengers.
Claim is made for $255.86, the cost of repairing the damage to the bus.
Respondent recommends and the attorney general approves its payment.
An award is made for two hundred fifty-five dollars and eighty-six cents ($255.86) is made to claimant.