Gooden v. County Commission of Webster County

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• “Common-law governmental immunity for county commissions is abolished. A county commission shall be liable, just as a private citizen, to members of the general public, for injuries proximately caused by the negligence of its employees performing their duties.”
• county commissions are not instrumentalities of the State of West Virginia

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).