Cline v. Evans and Tallman

Fox, Judge:

Audra Cline, an infant, who sues by her next friend, instituted her action in the Circuit Court of Wyoming County against J. C. Evans and C. C. Tallman, partners doing business as Pineville Gas Company, seeking to recover damages for injuries to her right leg immediately above the ankle when she stepped into an open tile originally placed in a public highway in the Town of Pineville by the defendants,.to cover a valve connected with their gas lines laid therein. The case was tried, resulting in a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff for seven thousand five hundred dollars, on…