THIS JUST IN: Cabell County

Dec. 16
SWVA Inc. vs. A.M. Haire Body Co. Inc.
PA- Thomas E. Scarr, Arnold J. Janicker, John A. Hess; J- David M. Pancake
* From 2007 until 2009, the defendant purchased products from SWVA to be shipped to its North Carolina location. SWVA claims the company has failed to pay. SWVA is seeking damages in the amount of $27,188.76, plus an amount sufficient to compensate them for all consequential and incidental damages.
Case number: 09-C-994

Charles Edward Crigger III vs. Southern Nites Inc. d/b/a The Stonewall and Eleazar James Morales, individually
PA- Kenneth P. Hicks, Roger L. Lambert; J- David M. Pancake
* On Jan. 1, Crigger claims he went to the Stonewall night club to pick up his boss. He claims after retrieving his boss, Morales, who was an employee at the night club, approached him at the direction of his supervisor and began striking him in the head and face with his fists. Crigger is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.
Case number: 09-C-999

Dec. 17
Rose Morrison, Executrix of the Estate of Dwight R. Morrison vs. Sulzer Metco (US), Inc., and Jacob Kolojaco
PA- Michael C. Walker, David J. Lockwood; J- F. Jane Hustead
* Mr. Morrison was an employee of Sulzer and on Feb. 25 he was working inside a hand spray booth applying a protective coating to a 12-foot steel shaft that was rotating on a "'rigged' high velocity lathe." The lathe had been modified by the defendant to operate at a high speed, was not designed for the spraying of protective coatings, was not properly guarded and was otherwise unsafe, according to the suit. Mr. Morrison was decapitated as a result of the "rigged" equipment, his wife claims. Mrs. Morrison is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.
Case number: 09-C-1000