Legal Opinion
Hinkle v. Black
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided December 18, 1979No. 14617PublishedCited by 216 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Neely, Justice:
On 27 April 1978 the collapse of a cooling tower then under construction at the Pleasants Power Station, Willow Island, Pleasants County, West Virginia, resulted in the deaths of fifty-one men. As a consequence of certain of those deaths, as of 18 June 1979, there were pending in the Circuit Court of Pleasants County twenty civil actions which sought damages for wrongful death from various defendants who were involved in the construction or ownership of the collapsed tower.
On 16 May 1979 seven civil actions seeking damages for the alleged wrongful deaths of persons killed in…
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