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HINKLE v. BLACK

No. 14617.

262 S.E.2d 744 (1979)

Linda L. HINKLE, Exrs., etc. et al. v. The Hon. Donald F. BLACK, etc. et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

December 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sterl F. Shinaberry, Hostler & Shinaberry, Charleston, for petitioners.

John R. Hoblitzell, Kay, Casto & Chaney, Charleston, for Cross Concrete.

Herbert G. Underwood, James M. Wilson, Steptoe & Johnson, Clarksburg, for Research-Cottrell.

Diana Everett, Cather & Renner, Parkersburg, for United.

John B. Garden, R. Noel Foreman, Bachmann, Hess, Bachmann & Garden, Wheeling, for Allegheny, Monongahela and Potomac-Edison.

Spilman, Thomas, Battle & Klostermeyer, David B. Shapiro, John H. Tinney, Charleston, McQuire, Woods & Battle, Murray H. Wright, Richmond, Va., for Pittsburgh Testing.

NEELY, Justice:

On 27 April 1978 the collapse of a cooling tower then under construction at the Pleasants Power Station, Willow Island, Pleasants County, West Virginia, resulted in the deaths of fifty-one men. As a consequence of certain of those deaths, as of 18 June 1979, there were pending in the Circuit Court of Pleasants County twenty civil actions which sought damages for wrongful death from various defendants who were involved in the construction or ownership...

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