Carmet Co. v. Department of Highways

RULEY, JUDGE:

The claimant seeks an award in the sum of $1,577.61 for damage allegedly sustained by its 1974 model Plymouth automobile when it collided with the respondent’s truck. The collision happened on Friday, June 6,1975, at a point on W. Va. Route 2 near Moundsville in Marshall County. At that time and place, Route 2 was a two-lane highway and was substantially straight and level for several hundred feet. Both vehicles were northbound, and, at the time of the accident, the claimant’s vehicle, driven by its employee, Ellis R. Abel, was engaged in an overtaking and passing maneuver. The…