Berges v. State

The Court of Claims has made decisions against each of the four claimants dismissing their claims against the State. These were filed for personal damages by each and by one of the claimants also a claim was filed for property damages. The negligence charge is that the State failed to post reasonable and proper notices and warning signs of an excavation in the shoulder of the road and, according to the claimants’ evidence, in the paved portion of the road. Further negligence *793charged is that the officials of the State permitted- a contractor who had the repair job to make the excavation to an…