Alexander Ex Rel. Ramsey v. Willard

This is an appeal by Karla Alexander (hereinafter “Appellant”), an infant child, by her next friend and mother, Henrietta Ramsey, from a defense verdict in the Circuit Court of McDowell County in favor of the Appellees, Shirley Willard, Sylvester Willard, and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (hereinafter “Appellees”). We reverse and remand for a new trial.

I. Facts

On August 30, 1997, Appellee Mrs. Shirley Willard was driving an automobile owned by Mr. Frederick Willard on County Route Seven in Roderfield, West Virginia. The Appellant, age eleven, was on a bicycle at the intersection of…