Bartram v. Department of Highways

WALLACE, JUDGE:

The claimants, Hazel Bartram and Foster Lee Bartram, husband and wife, filed this claim in the amount of $225,000.00 against the respondent for injuries sustained by Mrs. Bartram, medical and doctor bills, and damages sustained by Mr. Bartram’s automobile in a single car accident on February 3, 1981.

On the day of the accident, the claimant, Hazel Bartram, was driving her husband’s automobile from the Southern West Virginia Community College located in Williamson, West Virginia, to her home in Lenore, West Virginia. She was proceeding easterly on W.Va. Secondary Route 3/5 at…