Holdren v. Department of Highways

JONES, JUDGE:

This claim was filed by Paul W. Holdren, as Committee for Franklin T. Fleming, an incompetent, for damages to the Fleming resident situate about 1,000 feet below State Route 20 on Miller Mountain near Webster Springs. This is one of several homes fronting on the Elk River Road in a community known as Doortown. It was built by Franklin Fleming’s father in 1947, and after his death Franklin and his mother continued to live there until August, 1972, when the home was abandoned because of water damage which rendered it uninhabitable. The Franklins had dug a drainage ditch, about 2…