Lambert v. State Board of Control

CHARLES J. SCHUCK, Judge.

The claim in this matter presents a very novel as well as interesting question involving the treatment of inmates in a reformatory and the extent to which the state would be liable, if at all, for the torts of an escapee from such reformatory. The claimant was a resident of Taylbr county, West Virginia, living in close proximity to the boy’s reformatory at Pruntytown. On Sunday the eighth day of March 1942, the claimant was attending services at the Pruntytown Baptist Church and had traveled from his home to the church in his automobile. During the services the…