Edgell v. Department of Highways

JONES, JUDGE:

The claims of James Dewey Edgell (No. D-630a) and Wilma R. Edgell (No. D-630b) against the respondent, Department of Highways, were consolidated for hearing and decision.

On February 26, 1973, the claimant, James Dewey Edgell, then temporarily unemployed, had driven his father to work at Weirton Steel Company in Weirton, West Virginia, and was returning to their home in New Cumberland, West Virginia, when he became involved in an accident. He was driving a 1965 Buick station wagon, owned by his mother, the claimant, Wilma R. Edgell, on West Virginia Route No. 2, in the right-hand…