Jennie Brooks v. City of Huntington

WORKMAN, Justice.

Petitioners/plaintiffs below, Jennie Brooks, et al,1 (hereinafter “petitioners”) appeal the Circuit Court of Wayne County’s grant of *610respondent/defendant City of Huntington’s (hereinafter “respondent”) motion for remit-titur, following a four-day jury trial. The jury found respondent negligent in its maintenance of a “trash rack" within the Krouts Creek Stormwater Management project located in the City of Huntington, which negligence proximately caused flooding in petitioners’ Spring Valley neighborhood. The jury awarded damages to petitioners for, among other things, the…