WARD v. BAKER

No. 21222.

425 S.E.2d 245 (1992)

188 W.Va. 569

Jina L. WARD, Individually, and as Next Friend of Michael Chase Ward, an Infant; and Gary E. Ward, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, v. Alice J. BAKER; Boyce E. Baker; Richard Baker; Erie Insurance Group, A Corporation; State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, A Corporation; and Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, A Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided December 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Littlepage, Hyer & Littlepage, Point Pleasant, for plaintiffs.

Mark L. Garren, Garren, Plymale, Lycan & Pritt, Huntington, for defendants Alice J. Baker and Boyce E. Baker.

R. Gregory McNeer, Campbell, Woods, Bagley, Emerson, McNeer & Herndon, Huntington, for defendant State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

James D. Lamp, Lamp, O'Dell, Bartram & Entsminger, Huntington, for defendant Erie Ins. Group.

William L. Mundy, Mundy & Adkins, Huntington, for defendant Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co.


WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon a December 11, 1991, order of the Circuit Court of Cabell County which certified two questions to this Court. A recitation of the facts is necessary in order to frame the issues surrounding the certified questions. On November 1, 1987, in Cabell County, West Virginia, the Plaintiff, Jina L. Ward, one of the Appellees, was involved in an accident when the Defendant, Boyce Baker, caused1

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