Kessel v. Leavitt

DAVIS, Chief Justice:1

The appellants herein, and defendants below, David Keene Leavitt, Anne Gilmore Co-naty, Eleanor Wolfe Conaty, Thomas J. Co-naty, and Brian P. Conaty,2 appeal from a December 4, 1995, jury verdict in the Circuit Court of Cabell County returned in favor of the appellee herein, and plaintiff below, John Woodruff Kessel. Claiming that the defendants had acted fraudulently in placing the child of Anne Conaty and John Kessel for adoption and that they had tortiously interfered with John Kessel’s parental rights in his son, the jury awarded John compensatory damages of $2…