Toppings v. Department of Highways
This text of 11 Ct. Cl. 156 (Toppings v. Department of Highways) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering West Virginia Court of Claims primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The claimant and respondent have filed a written Stipulation which reveals that in June of 1975, the respondent was upgrading Local Service Route 52/5 in Lincoln County, West Virginia, and in performing the upgrading adjacent to the property of the claimant, respondent’s machinery uprooted and destroyed certain trees on claimant’s property. As a result four (4) fruit trees and twenty-two (22) locust trees belonging to the claimant were destroyed, and that the fair market value of these trees was $710.00. Believing that liability rests with respondent and that the claimant’s damages are reasonable, we hereby award the claimant $710.00.
Award of $710.00.
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