Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority v. Canady

Petitioners, Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority, United Airlines, Inc., UAL, Inc., and American Airlines, Inc., seek a writ of prohibition ordering Herman G. Canady, Judge of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, “to take no further action” in a civil action that the respondent reinstated pursuant to W.Va. *812R.Civ.P. 41(b).1 Since there was evidence in the record to support the trial judge’s discretionary decision to reinstate the case, we deny the petition for a writ of prohibition, filed with this Court over one year after the order reinstating the case was entered.

In 1978,…