Legal Opinion
Craigo v. Marshall
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided June 6, 1985No. 16613, 16614PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Justice:
We have consolidated these cases because they involve the same legal issue of whether a prisoner may file a civil action without having a committee appointed. The petitioners, David Carr and Robert Craigo, are both serving sentences in excess of one year at the State penitentiary in Moundsville. In 1984, each of them filed a civil action in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County. Petitioner Carr’s suit was a civil action against two residents of Kanawha County who allegedly perpetrated a fraud on him while he was detained in the Kana-wha County Jail. Petitioner Craigo’s suit was…
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