Case Name: MAYFORD HUGHART, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent
Court: West Virginia Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1945-02-01
Citations: 3 Ct. Cl. 58
Docket Number: No. 453-S
Parties: MAYFORD HUGHART, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Report of the West Virginia Court of Claims
Volume: 3
Pages: 58–59

Head Matter:
(No. 453-S
MAYFORD HUGHART, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
Opinion filed February 1, 1945

Opinion:
G. H. A. KUNST, Judge.
At seven-thirty o'clock on November 3, 1944, when a truck, No. 130-94, owned by respondent and an automobile owned by claimant, had stopped at a railroad crossing at Bigley avenue, in Charleston, West Virginia, awaiting the passing of a train, the driver of the state truck negligently backed the truck into the front of the automobile, causing damage to it, which cost $32.13 to repair and for which amount claim is made. Respondent recommends and the attorney general approves its payment.
An award of thirty-two dollars and thirteen cents ($32.13) is made to claimant.