State Ex Rel. West Virginia Department of Transportation, Highways Division v. Madden

In this prohibition proceeding, the petitioner, the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Highways Division (“DOH”), seeks to prohibit the respondent judge, the Honorable John T. Madden, Judge of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, from proceeding with the trial in the case styled Patricia E. McLaughlin, an incompetent, who sues by and through her duly appointed committee, Cynthia J. Ward v. the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Highways Division, a West Virginia governmental entity, and Ross W. Campbell, and Motorists Mutual Insurance Company. The DOH asserts that the…