THIS JUST IN: Berkeley County

Sept. 9
April M. Longerbeam vs. Garrison V. Morin, MD.; John W. Ellis, MD.; and Salutis Emergency Specialists PLLC
PA - Joseph Ferretti; J - David Sanders
* The plaintiff, individually and as administrator of the estate of Andrew E. Longerbeam, claims the defendants were negligent and failed to properly care for Andrew Longerbeam when the plaintiff took her 3-year-old son to City Hospital in Martinsburg on Aug. 23 for a severe sore throat. She claims her son was examined briefly and then sent home. That night the toddler died in his sleep, and an autopsy determined that he died because of an acute throat infection, which blocked his airway and caused respiratory and cardiac arrest. The plaintiff is seeking an amount of relief to be determined at trial.
Case number: 08-C-1161

Sept. 29
Bank of Charles Town vs. Irene T. Hollida
PA - Stephen Skinner; J - David Sanders
* The plaintiff claims the defendant's company, G.I. Properties LLC, received five loans in April 2005 and defaulted in the payment of all of them. The bank claims that after applying proceeds of the sale of the foreclosures to the loans, the defendant still owes at least $99,093.43 plus interest.
Case number: 08-C-1209

Sept. 30
Henri Brooks Rowe vs. Henry Moss Brooks, Orchard Development and Paramount Development Corp.
PA - Pro se; J - David Sanders
* The plaintiff, individually as an administrator of the estate of his mother, Ann Brooks Rowe, claims that the defendant, who is his uncle, failed to adhere to Ann Brooks Rowe's dying wishes and acted with threats, perjury and malice toward the plaintiff in the years following Ann's death in March 1997. The plaintiff is seeking at least $6,090,110.80 from the defendants for real estate losses and other damages.
Case number: 08-C-1212