Adkins v. Department of Highways

GRACEY, JUDGE:

Claimants Esta M. Adkins brought this action as Administratrix of the Estate of Cecil Adkins, Jr., her husband, who dies in a single-vehicle accident on August 26, 1976.

The accident in which claimant's decedent died occurred on Mud River Road, also known as Little Seven Mile Road. The road is designated as Local Service Route 19 and is located near Huntington, in Cabell County. The vehicle involved in the incident was a 1968 Plymouth automobile owned by claimant and/or the decedent. The evidence is not clear as to whether Cecil Adkins, Jr. or the other individual in the vehicle,…