STATE EX REL. BD. OF EDUC. v. PERRY

No. 21697.

434 S.E.2d 22 (1993)

189 W.Va. 662

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF EDUCATION; James J. Maccallum, President; Paul J. Morris, Vice-President; N. Blaine Groves, Secretary; Virgil C. Cook, Member; Audrey S. Horne, Member; Michael D. Greer, Member; Cleo P. Mathews, Member; Patricia Full Hamner, Member; Charles H. Wagoner, Member; and Dr. Henry Marockie, State Superintendent of Schools, Relators, v. Honorable Roger L. PERRY, Judge of the Circuit Court of Logan County; Paul Burgess, Larry R. Bartram, Debra A. Grimes, Jerry Aleshire, Debbie Pickett, Ella Smutko, Diann Lynn Kish, and Christa Dawn Bias, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Atty. Gen., Katherine A. Schultz, Deputy Atty. Gen., Brentz Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for relators.

Thomas E. Esposito, Esposito & Esposito, Logan, Mark Hobbs, Pros. Atty. for Logan County, Logan, for respondents.


MILLER, Justice:

We granted a rule to show cause in this original proceeding in prohibition at the request of the relators, the West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) and its members, who claim that the respondent trial judge exceeded his jurisdiction in determining that the Circuit Court of Logan County had venue to hear the underlying suit. The relators assert that the WVBE is a state agency and that they are state officers...

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