State Ex Rel. Phoenix Insurance Company v. Ritchie

Erowning, President:

These eight cases are original proceedings in mandamus, and there are common questions of fact as to each and common questions of law as to the first seven but not as to the eighth, Phoenix Insurance Company v. The State Road Commissioner. The petitions allege that on October 11, 1967, the Mountain State Construction Company, working pursuant to a contract with the State Road Commission and doing certain excavation and construction work with respect to the rebuilding *309of West Virginia Route 61, caused large volumes of water to flood many portions of the City of Montgomery,…