City of Morgantown v. Ducker

Haymond, President:

In this mandamus proceeding instituted in this Court in February, 1969, the petitioner, The City of Morgantown, a .municipal corporation, seeks a writ to require the. defendants, The Honorables Henry Lakin Ducker, W. Lyle Jones and A. W. Petroplus, Judges of the State Court of Claims, to assume jurisdiction of a certain claim of the plaintiff in the amount of $40,886.22 against the Board of Governors of West Virginia University, a corporation, for fire protection fees for the fiscal year 1966-67, assessed by the plaintiff against the board, which claim the board on November…