TRENT v. COOK

No. 23077.

482 S.E.2d 218 (1996)

198 W.Va. 601

Stevie Ray TRENT and Pamela E. Trent, His Wife, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, v. Tammy L. COOK, Defendant Below, Appellee. Continental Casualty Company, Defendant Below, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided December 17, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Mullins II, Pineville, for Appellees.

John W. Alderman III, Steptoe & Johnson, Charleston, for Continental Casualty Company, defending in the name of Tammy Cook.

Scott S. Segal, Mark R. Staun, John F. Dascoli, Segal and Davis, L.C., Charleston, Barry M. Hill, Gompers, McCarthy, Hill & McClure, Weirton, for Amicus Curiae, The West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.


WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court1 upon the appeal2 of Continental Casualty Company3 from the March 8, 1995, final order of the Circuit Court of Wyoming County, denying Appellant's post-trial motions to set aside a jury verdict finding Appellee Stevie Ray Trent forty percent negligent and the tortfeasor, Tammy L. Cook, sixty...

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