Monk v. State Road Commission

PETROPLUS, JUDGE:

A Notice of Claim was filed in the 'amount of $69.79 for damages to Claimant’s automobile. On the evening of October 14, 1968, at about 6:50 o’clock P.M., Claimant was driving his automobile on State Local Service Road 15 in Kanawha County, and as he crossed a State Road Bridge near Berry Hills Country Club, his left rear wheel dropped into a hole in the floor of the Bridge. The hole resulted from two missing boards in the traveled portion of the Bridge and was two feet wide and four feet long. The State Road personnel were immediately notified and the hole was promptly…