BRUEN v. COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORP.

No. 20734.

426 S.E.2d 522 (1992)

188 W.Va. 730

Edward F.L. BRUEN, Lorna Harrah Bruen, and Nicholas Livingston Bruen, as Co-Executors of the Estate of Alexander Jay Bruen, Jr.; Edward F.L. Bruen; Constance Bruen Barrow; Evelyn Bruen Trevor; and Dora D.B. Ide and Citibank, N.A., a National Banking Institution, as Trustees Under the Will of John Jay Ide, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees, v. COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Successor to United Fuel Gas Company; C.L. Glover, Brenton Y. Glover, C.L. Glover, Jr., Brenda J. Glover, W.L. Glover and Dorothy Glover, Trading and Doing Business as Glover Gas Company; Harry A. Holtam; and Mountain Gas, Ltd., Defendants Below, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Successor to United Fuel Gas Company, Defendant Below, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided December 16, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Goodwin, Goodwin & Goodwin, Charleston, for appellant.

Charles W. Yeager, Steptoe & Johnson, Charleston, Donald R. Johnson, Bristol, for appellees.


McHUGH, Chief Justice:

This case is before the Court upon the appeal of Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, the defendant below, from the May 9, 1991 order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, which upheld a jury verdict against the appellant. The appellees and plaintiffs below are: Edward F.L. Bruen, Lorna Harrah Bruen, and Nicholas Livingston Bruen, as co-executors of the estate of Alexander Jay Bruen, Jr.; Edward...

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