Arrick v. State Board of Control

CHARLES J. SCHUCK, Judge.

On the 17th day of July, 1945, two prisoners, John Murrell and Jack Spence, confined in the state penitentiary at Mounds-ville, escaped from the said prison and while so at liberty stole claimant’s car from her garage located near Proctor, in Wetzel county, West Virginia. The car was driven by the said escapees to Chesapeake, Ohio, and when later found it was considerably damaged, no doubt from the manner in which it had been driven and operated and claimant was obliged to expend the sum of $269.61 for repairs to the automobile and to put it in proper running order.…