State Ex Rel. Riddle v. Department of Highways

Haymond, Judge:

In this original mandamus proceeding, instituted in this Court March 3, 1970, the petitioner, Dudley Cyrus Riddle, seeks a writ to compel the defendants, the Department of Highways of West Virginia and William S. Ritchie, Jr., Commissioner of the Department of Highways of West Virginia, to institute an eminent domain proceeding against the petitioner in the Circuit Court of Wayne County, West Virginia, to ascertain damages to a tract of land of 8.82 acres owned by the petitioner caused by the relocation of West Virginia State Route 75 in Wayne County, West Virginia, which…