Davis Trust Co. v. State Board of Control

CHARLES J. SCHUCK, Judge. ,

The Davis Trust Company, of Elkins, West Virginia, as administrator of the estate of Lucy Ward, deceased, prosecutes *189this claim on the ground of inexcusable laxity, amounting to negligence, on the part of the prison officials in charge of the state medium security prison at Huttonsville, West Virginia, in guarding and handling the prisoners of said prison, one of whom, James Chambers, on January 20, 1945, raped and murdered the said Lacy Ward, a highly respected lady, living on a farm near the said prison. The said rape and murder took place in the barn on the farm…