Long v. City of Weirton

Haden, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal by Manufacturers Light and Heat Company from a final order of the Circuit Court of Hancock County confirming a judgment entered against it upon a jury verdict in the amount of $216,545.00, but exonerating the City of Weirton as a joint tort-feasor under the same jury verdict on the City’s motion for judgment based upon absolution of liability under the “doctrine of governmental immunity.”

This action was instituted on behalf of Susan Marie Long, an infant, by her co-guardians against Manufacturers (the “gas company”), the City of Weirton, James White…