Grillis v. Monongahela Power Co.

MILLER, Chief Justice:

The defendant, Monongahela Power Company, appeals a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Brooke County, wherein the plaintiffs, Emmanuel Grillis and Maria Grillis, his wife, were awarded a jury verdict in the amount of $500,000 as damages for personal injuries. A judgment order in the amount of $465,000 was entered, representing the amount of the verdict less a setoff of $35,000 from a pretrial settlement with another defendant.

Error is alleged with regard to the trial court’s handling of the pretrial settlement on the basis it did not disclose the settlement to the…