West Virginia Court of Claims August 6, 1981, CC-80-342 (Bowen v. Department of Highways)

WALLACE, JUDGE:

Omega Perdue, formerly Omega Jenkins, filed this claim against the respondent for damages to her tobacco crop and loss of topsoil and fertilizer caused by the flooding of her tobacco field.

She testified that she and her four children owned an eighty-four acre farm located on the waters of Jenkins Creek near Milton, West Virginia.