VENTURA v. WINEGARDNER

No. 17186.

357 S.E.2d 764 (1987)

Diane VENTURA v. Roy E. WINEGARDNER and John Q. Hammons, Trustees; Roy E. Winegardner and John Q. Hammons, Partners, doing business as Morgan Hills Operating Company, a partnership; Winegardner and Hammons, Inc., a corporation, doing business as the Holiday Inn.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

May 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Solomon, Solomon & Solomon, Morgantown, for appellant.

Richard E. Hamstead, Hamstead & Hamstead, Morgantown, for appellee.


BROTHERTON, Justice:

In this appeal, the appellant, Holiday Inn, is contesting a judgment entered on a jury verdict rendered in favor of the appellee, Diane Ventura, by the Circuit Court of Monongalia County. We agree with Holiday Inn that there were errors in the conduct of the trial, particularly the failure of the trial court to instruct on assumption of risk and the lack of qualifications of Ventura's damage expert, and we therefore reverse.

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