Wilson v. Department of Highways

WALLACE, JUDGE:

The claimant, Ralph Wilson, was a driver-salesman for the United Ohio Valley Dairy. On November 24, 1972 he was proceeding southerly on Brady’s Ridge Road in Brooke County, West Virginia about a mile south of the Washington Pike. It was early morning, the weather was clear. Claimant testified that he travelled this road twice a week in his milk truck; that the road was approximately twelve to fourteen feet wide; that the truck was eight feet wide.

On the morning of the accident, the left hand berm, of three to four feet proceeding southerly, had been scraped and cleaned and was…