State ex rel. Rhodes v. West Virginia Department of Highways

Calhoun, President:

This case involves two separate proceedings in mandamus instituted in this Court by owners of separate parcels of land to compel the West Virginia Department of Highways and William S. Ritchie, Jr., West Virginia Commissioner of Highways, as the respondents, to institute two separate proceedings in eminent domain in the Circuit Court of Raleigh County for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of damages alleged to have been caused to real estate owned by the petitioners as a consequence of the construction of a state public highway in the vicinity of the Town of Crab…