Blankenship v. Minton Chevrolet, Inc.

Neely, Justice:

These three cases present substantially the same question and for the purpose of decision have been consolidated. The common issue is whether the decision of this Court in Shrewsbury v. Poteet, _ W.Va. _, 202 S.E.2d 628 (1974) which found the method of paying justices of the peace unconstitutional because judicial officers had pecuniary interest in the outcome of cases before them makes all judgments rendered in justices’ courts before Shrewsbury, supra, unenforceable. The Circuit Courts of Marion and Logan Counties declined to apply Shrewsbury retroactively. The Circuit Court…