West Virginia Court of Claims October 19, 1943, No. 139 (Lambert v. State Board of Control)

CHARLES J. SCHUCK, Judge.

The claim in this matter presents a very novel as well as interesting question involving the treatment of inmates in a reformatory and the extent to which the state would be liable, if at all, for the torts of an escapee from such reformatory. The claimant was a resident of Taylbr county, West Virginia, living in close proximity to the boy’s reformatory at Pruntytown.