Burdette v. Maust Coal and Coke Corp.

This appeal involves a motion to reverse a final order of the Circuit Court of Greenbrier County which overruled the appellants’ (plaintiffs below) motion to direct a verdict for them as to liability and to grant a new trial on the question of damages alone, or in the alternative, to set aside the jury verdict in favor of the appellees (defendants below) and to award appellants a new trial.

Three consolidated wrongful death actions were brought by the movants, Rowena E. Burdette, Helen F. McClung, and Hilda F. Walkup, administratrixes of their husbands’ estates. Their husbands were killed in…