Lipscomb v. King Knob Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 147 W. Va. 825 - Walker v. Monongahela Power Company · 148 W. Va. 742 - State Road Commission v. Ferguson · 164 W. Va. 400 - Royal Furniture Co. v. City of Morgantown · 158 W. Va. 926 - Wheeling Dollar Savings & Trust Co. v. Leedy · Redman v. Community Hotel Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“In determining whether the verdict of a jury is supported by the evidence, every reasonable and legitimate inference, fairly arising from the evidence in favor of the party for whom the verdict was returned, must be considered, and those facts, which the jury might properly find under the evidence, must be assumed as true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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