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WILLIAMSON A Kermit man is suing Chojnacki Construction for failing to properly secure construction equipment on a flatbed truck.
Troy Williams was occupying a vehicle that was being operated in a safe, proper and cautious manner on July 15, 2019, when an excavator bucket fell off of a flatbed trailer owned by the defendant and operated by its employee, according to a complaint filed in Mingo Circuit Court.
Williams claims the excavator bucket collided with the vehicle he was in, causing the vehicle to wreck and Williams sustained severe and permanent injuries.
The defendant had a duty to exercise due care when operating its vehicles and securing its equipment and failed to do so, according to the suit.
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WILLIAMSON A Williamson woman is suing the West Virginia Department of Transportation-Division of Highways alleging she was injured in a car accident.
Rebecca Obrien filed the lawsuit against DOH and James Obrien after she was injured in the car accident on Aug. 21, according to a complaint filed in Mingo Circuit Court.
Rebecca Obrien was a passenger in a vehicle being operated by James Obrien and traveling on W.Va. 49 when the vehicle hit a drain cutout in the roadway that DOH had negligently placed in the road without the required road signs, according to the suit.
DOH had a duty to exercise due care and reasonable precaution regarding the implementation, management and enforcement of a temporary traffic control plan in the construction zone and failed to do so, according to the suit.
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WILLIAMSON A Matewan couple is suing several organizations alleging that they breached a contract and refused to sell real estate to them.
Pocahontas Land, Pocahontas Surface Interests and Pocahontas Royalties were all named as defendants in the suit.
Trellis Cisco and Harriet Cisco contract with Pocahontas Land Corporation on Aug. 11, 2017, and the plaintiffs complied with the defendant s requests and returned all of the required information and documentation and continued to pay on their lease with the understanding that the payments would be applied to the purchase of the property, according to a complaint filed in Mingo Circuit Court.
WILLIAMSON – The wife of a late Mingo County man has sued a Kentucky insulation company and a manufacturer after a barrel exploded and killed him.
Debrah Canterbury filed her complaint April 7 against Reed’s Sprayfoam Insulation Inc., Jenna Reed, Tim Reed Inc. and Southwest Distributing Company doing business as SWD Urethane. Canterbury filed the complaint as executrix of the estate of Watson Canterbury Jr. Reed’s Sprayfoam was based in Belfry, Kentucky, but it now is based in Williamson. SWD is based in Mesa, Arizona.
According to the complaint, Watson Canterbury traveled from his home in Delbarton on November 18, 2020, to Belfry after seeing a Facebook Marketplace advertisement by Reed’s selling used sprayfoam drums for $5 each. Canterbury purchased six drums to make “burn barrels,” which the complaint says are common in rural areas and a “reasonably foreseeable purpose.”