Case Name: W. T. CAPLINGER, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent
Court: West Virginia Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1950-04-21
Citations: 5 Ct. Cl. 115
Docket Number: No. 676-S
Parties: W. T. CAPLINGER, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Report of the West Virginia Court of Claims
Volume: 5
Pages: 115–115

Head Matter:
(No. 676-S
W. T. CAPLINGER, Claimant, v. STATE ROAD COMMISSION, Respondent.
Opinion filed April 21, 1950

Opinion:
MERRIMAN S. SMITH, Judge.
W. T. Caplinger of route 5, Cove Road, Parkersburg, West Virginia, was travelling east over the East Street Bridge in Parkersburg, Wood county, West Virginia, on May 29, 1949. An eighty-penny nail had worked loose from the defective wooden flooring of the bridge and punctured the tire and tube of his automobile. The cost of repairing same amounted to $4.08.
Under Statute Michie's code (17-4-33) the state road commission shall inspect all bridges upon state roads, etc. Upon investigation of this accident by F. M. Ferrell, safety director for the state road commission, it was discovered that the floor of the bridge was in bad condition, and he identified the eighty-penny nail which had punctured the tire and tube of the claimant.
This claim was concurred in by the commissioner of the state road commission as provided for under Michie's code (14-2-20) and approved by the attorney general. This court hereby makes an award in the sum of four dollars and eight cents ($4.08) to the said claimant.