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is Harvey Payton, a Payton Law firm in Nitro. Jeff Jenkins and Harvey
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with you. Harvey's here every Thursday morning. Three O four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight. Three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight.
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The line is open for you to call three oh four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight. Good morning, sir, well, good morning,
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Jeff. It's I'm sorry. I was rambling along. Kind of are off
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the air when we went on the air, but I'm here bright and early
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from the Peyton Law Firm at twenty eight oh one First Avenue and Nitro.
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Hopefully we will get some questions today about the law. Our quest here on
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this program, which we've been doing for about twenty five years now, is
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to try and help the public understand that don't be afraid to call a lawyer.
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There's always this fear that lawyers are overly expensive, or that you're going
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to become involved in a lot of litigation or broiled in troublesome obligations if you
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consult with the lawyer, and actually the opposite. It's true. You're going
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to save yourself probably some future time and money by consulting a lawyer about a
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lot of things, particularly in your daily affairs, your estate planning, property
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transactions, contracts, and if, as makes up so much of our practice,
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you're injured in an automobile accent or some other injury you've suffered, whether
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it's personal or financial, or your property as a result of what you think
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is the fault of another party, or if you have an issue, you
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say, with your own insurance company, they won't pay you for acclaim.
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Then we can help you. And don't be afraid to call a lawyer,
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and don't be afraid to go to our website Peytonlawfirm dot com and you can
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send an email that comes to either me or to my son Tom, and
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we can respond to you and we can get the facts that we need.
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And as I've told a lot of folks, I just actually I'm going down
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to the courthouse this morning to look at something. A listener called and had
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a question about, you know, an old judgment that was showing up,
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and is what's going to cost to get this straight? And charge anything to
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go to the courthouse and see if you've got a problem. If you don't
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have a problem, I'll call you and tell you I'm not going to charge
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anything for that. We don't charge anybody for an initial visit to see if
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you have a case or if it's a case we can help you with.
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A lot of folks may have a claim, but you have to explain,
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you know, the transactional cost of this. I had one of those yesterday.
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Or gentleman sent me a very nice narrative of a consumer transaction that had
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gone bad and involved a warranty through both a big box seller and a manufacturer.
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And to me, I said, look, this is a situation here,
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and you need to get online and go to the Western Attorney General's Consumer
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Protection Division. He didn't live in the city at Charleston, and he did.
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The Consumer Protection office here wouldn't have been a help. And finally,
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complaint and you know, they do a good work up there. It's the
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first place to start. It doesn't cost anything, and they'll take your complaint
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and they'll send it. And generally, if you're dealing with the responsible parties,
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and this fellow was, I mean, it was a big box retailer
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that specialized in appliance sales and home furnishings and a major manufacturer, and they
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they are generally responsive. They can't afford a lot of complaints, a lot
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of negative reviews because competition is so keen at that level. So don't be
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afraid to call us, at least give us a thought. We don't advertise
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on television. First of all, I don't have the face for it.
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Tom does, but we just he's the he's on the billboard. Ye if
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you see that smiling face of call, if you ever at Call Tom,
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that's that's that's the I've got a face for radio and I'm sticking to it.
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This morning, I drove in from Putnam County, gorgeous morning, like,
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there's only thirty minutes from almost into HRC and now by sleeping on the
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golf course to the front door here. So it's way less than that to
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our office in Nitro. If it's not inconvenient of the suburbs. In fact,
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given parking and traffic, it's more convenient if you want to come and
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see us. But I'm pulled in the parking lot. Oh my, the
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vans are lined up. I forgot. This is turkey drop. So if
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you're listening and I didn't do it this morning, but I might. Is
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it just today? Yes, well try I might try and get back this
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afternoon. You know, you can buy a frozen turkey at twenty five pounder
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if you can afford it. Now for and lawyer. Most lawyers can afford
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it. You can make yourself afford it. You're gonna spend that month for
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a big lunch. You're going down here to Adelphia and drinking beer in the
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afternoon. Go drop about thirty bucks and buy a frozen turkey and bring it
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up here to the parking lot at eleven eleven Virginia Street East and drop it
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off there. People that are just take it right from you in the car
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right and they are. They go to man and Meals and are used to
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feed hungry people during the Thanksgiving and holiday seasons. Now Man and Meals got
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a bit of a wrap last week. They've operated out of Saint John's Episcopal
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Church over here for decades, at least two decades that I know of,
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and most of the people who eat at Manna Meals are not homeless. Most
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of the people who use man and Meals are folks who are down on their
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luck or they are just poor and they have my food shortage and a nutrition
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necessity, they can go there. It's like Christ Kitchen and Saint Albans.
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The very best, in my estimation, charitable gift you can make it Saint
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Albans is to support Christ Kitchen at the Episcopal church down there. People come
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in you a hot meal. Now Christ Kitchen, it's just from like ten
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in the morning until two in the afternoon. But I've tried to help themselves
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several times working at Thanksgiving along with Sandy Call from the Bridge Road Bistro,
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a wonderful woman running a restaurant here in South Hills, gives her time to
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come and feed poor people. And poor people really have no constituency, don't
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really have a lot of representation in our society. Jesus didn't like it that
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way, you know, poor people were to be helped. We look at
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him in like two ways. I think you look at poor people as a
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statistic number. One, well, thirty percent of the people in later live
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out or below the poverty level. Or you look at it from the givers
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side. We have eight charitable groups in our community who gather and give food
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to the poor. But what's missing from that equation is those folks in the
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middle. Why are you poor? What are your needs? What are the
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issues here? How can we help you get out of this endless situation.
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I think that's where we have a shortfall. But that's just my soup box
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for the holiday season. We've got some lawsuits going. We got two lawsuits
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in connection with well, yes, it's longer than it was the last time.
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I remember when the water leak took place. I believe that was on
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a Thursday. I think you're right because I was in Andrea's supermarket there in
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Nitro and people were just gathering up all the bottle of water. I said,
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Andrea, what's going on here, oh Harvey, so you're not listening
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to the radio. Okay, well I'm not gonna buy any water. This
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is not going to last long, foolish meat. At that time we were
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living in Nitro, and it did without But the next morning my wife and
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I had a home at that time down at Claydon Springs in Rawleigh County where
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there wasn't any problem. So we hot puted out and on the way out
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of Charleston before we got to the top of the hill there at the Tunnle
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when we come to hit a cabin creek. On the radio, it was
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the news they were interviewing. I think it was Kent Carper, who had
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been at the courtyouse at like eight o five when they opened to file the
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first lawsuit less than twelve. I listened fourteen hours later this one. I
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think the council for at least one lawsuit was Dante to Trapano And yeah,
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I know both, I mean, and I knew there's better. I mean
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Rudy to Trappado who's now passed, and a Bill who's Jesse he's dead,
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was a prosecutor here for years. I mean, they're fine fellas. And
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actually their office for Dante is on the west side on Randolph Streets. They
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may be affected. One of the initial issues that I can sort of see
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in those cases is a jurisdictional one. You know, these are both regulated
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utilities, and this has direct application of the ability of the gas company to
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provide service. Not that service is available but it's suspended because of an emergency,
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but says they can't provide service because there was a leak end of their
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lines. You can't have gas lines with water in them, you know,
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as a regulated utility. It could be that the initial jurisdiction for some of
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the part of these lawsuits is with the Public Service Commission. I mean,
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there is a concept of law called exhaustion of remedies, which says, if
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you have an available and a statutorily available and mandated administrative remedy, that is,
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you can go to the agency and file a complaint and seek relief to
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their staff, then you have to do that first and exhaust that remedy to
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the fullest extent. Before then you can turn to the civil courts. I
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don't know. I mean, these are smart guys, and if there's an
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element of wilfulness or negligence involved, there's always a breach contract. Utilities have
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an applied contract with their customers to provide the service that the PSC mandates.
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So I'll see how it shakes out. People are critical of the fact that
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seats are filed quickly. Well, some of us want opsmanship. If you're
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first of the courthouse, you get some publicity and you pick up more clients
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that way. I mean, that's just a practical fact of life. The
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second is there may be evidence that you need to look at per work orders
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and you need to access perhaps to a physical location where work's being done,
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have an expert in the field look at what's being done to assess what the
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problem was. Regardless to the timliness over the merits of the lawsuit will come
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out and you have to keep that. It's a bad thing. It's a
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bad thing, particularly when you've gotten a constant rate increases by the water company
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and the underlying cause, at least allegedly or stated by mount of your Gas,
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is that there was an untended leak for some considerable period of time that
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caused a low pressure gas line to move and perhaps rupture separate, and then
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the gas line, you know, it's once you release the pressure, it's
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sucked up the water sucks up the water, and then you've got forty miles
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any amount of water. You know, you can't have that going. What
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are you going to do if you're in a it's unsafe. I mean you've
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got a pilot light going, gas furnace running, and you know, get
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some water that manages to get through the regulator, through the manifold into the
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house and snuff sent out. You've got a gas leak. Then you get
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a spark or you get rendered service. And you know a lot of these
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modern appliances are activated by igniters. When they detect a certain level of temperature,
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they spark to ignite the it's really dangerous, bad situation. It's bad.
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And then it just happened here. If this was July as opposed to
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a cool November, cooking is an issue for those people. I mean,
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this area is really heavily plumbed for natural gas. Forty six miles of line.
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Yeah, it's a lot. That's a bundle. We'll see how that
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comes out. We you know, we were talking off the air. I've
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been sort of watching the Supreme Court's website because this is the time of year
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that the Supreme Court always starts deciding most of the cases that they have heard
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through this term. And also on the Supreme Court website, you can look
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just below the Supreme Court's opinion list and there's an opinion list from the I
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guess it's new. It's now a year and a half on. It started
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on July one. Who accepting some cases, and so now we're seeing some
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opinions, some lengthy and signed opinions by the Intermediate Court of Appeals. We
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saw a lot of memorandum opinions and a lot of workers' compensation opinions decided over
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the last year, which is good because that shows that the court is fulfilling
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one of the roles that I always thought we should have had an intermediate court
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to fulfill, and that's workers' compensation and administrative proceedings, driver's license ravocations,
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or unemploy employment security applications that are all heard by the circuit courts in Kanawa
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County. The any business going directly to the Supreme Court. They should have
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gone to some specialized court long ago and take the pressure off the Supreme Court.
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But an interesting case. It's interesting to me because and like I'm a
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dinosaur. I went to law school at West Virginia University between nineteen seventy one
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and seventy four, where we had professors who made it both about the fact
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because we had a diploma privilege and we had very few students in any class.
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There were ninety six people in my graduating class, several of whom were
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actually retreads. There fellas who'd been drafted, you know, while they were
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in law school, and once there were two years or three year commitment was
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was fulfilled. They the law school had to have a spot for him that
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you had to be reading. Like I was this man, my good friend,
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who has an office down on Haill Street. It was in Vietnam.
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I got a bronze star, came back anyway. So I didn't take the
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courses in coal, oil and gas. So those were quite a popular part
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of the program. But property, Real property one and two, Real Property
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three taught by a man named Londo Brown, who was, you know,
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a nationally acclaimed expert in the field of real property deeds, wills and trust
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things of that nature. I found him fascinating. I didn't use it a
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whole lot. You think, well, how can you use that if you're
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a trial lawyer, Well, going to litigate these things, you know there's
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a lot of money involved. There's a lot of money. The case was
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decided this week by the Court of Intermed Court of Appeals was over, here's
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the issue. What does one sixteenth mean? Right? I mean that seems
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obvious, but in this case, it involved almost one half of the income
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from over one hundred acres of real property in Doddridge County, West Virginia,
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which is at the heart of the Marcella Shale, the source rock natural gas
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place. So I can tell you that means a lot. I don't know,
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it's not in the case what it means, but I can tell you
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from experience with clients who owns the same or smaller interest, that it is
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a lot of money, at least initially. And it was surprising to read
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that the object of deciding this case was a one hundred and twenty one year
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old deed, a handwritten deed one hundred and twenty one years old. The
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document was produced, it was considered by the court in which the person who
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wrote it out said, I'm selling this property of so and so, who
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was the predecessor of antero resources I've helped, who did the selling was the
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predecessor and title of the plaintiffs? Who said one sixteenth meant more than one
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sixteenth, and I reserved one sixteenth or a one sixteenth interest in the oil
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and gas and hydrocarbons, Well, seems obvious, but when you read the
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case. In fact, in the early nineteenth century, the standard landowner's proportionate
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share of income from oil and gas was one eighth, and any number of
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deeds were written professionally. If a person and I reserve a one sixteenth interest,
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that meant half of the inner's customary interest or one sixteenth. This is
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half of one eighth. It's not one sixteenth, which means the other fifteen
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sixteenths or seven sixteenths of half or retain. That's a lot of money,
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and it's a it's kind of a fascinating opinion to read. The court did
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a good analysis. I thought of deeds that were written and actually the common
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language that was used in the early nineteen hundreds was I returned it retained a
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one sixteenth interest, but the document itself then went on to say, being
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my intention to retain one half of the standard one eighth interests allocated to me
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as the landowner. Well, the deed that was an issue was handwritten.
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They had typewriters even in nineteen two, although deeds were often copied in clerk's
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offices by scriveners, and very elegant cursive was produced in the original's handwritten.
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Obviously, property owner some rural setting in Doddridge County one hundred and twenty one
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years ago took it upon themselves to handwrite it eat and they got it half
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right. They put in the percentage, but none of the other precatory language
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that would define that as being one half. And as a result, the
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current landowner who says, look, I'm entitled of half of this income as
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opposed to Antaro resources, and the answer is just, well, we understand
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your position, and we understand the confusion given what the law and public sentiment
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was one hundred and twenty one years ago. But they didn't write it that
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way. We don't know who was writing it. We can't presume that they
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were an illiterate or an unschooled person. We can just know that's what was
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written and without anything else, it's not ambiguous. The document speaks herself.
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So the resource developer won. Now that's I mean. People will look they
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said, well, that's what I told you about that quarter of appeals.
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They're business oriented. Well no, no, I mean that's just the facts.
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That's just the way it works. And so what it's so, I
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think what you're saying is what or indeed means. Well, surely mean something,
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and they mean a lot. They mean a lot. Well, deeds
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and pleadings mean a lot to me because I've hammered and hammered on it.
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They mean a lot to Tom. And I've had some lawyers have work for
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me. I had an whole lawyer tell me, once you know, you'll
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be dead someday, but there's records down there in the record room will still
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be there for everybody to look at. And if they go to the clerk's
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officers documents, you foul and they're going to judge you by how those look.
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So if you got a bunch of sloppy work with grammatical errors and misspellings,
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that's the way they all remember you. And I've always taken that to
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heart. She's got to. And you know you can't prove for you,
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you to yourself. You know that you're in the news business. How many
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times have you written a story? A lot and you've read it and you've
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read it, Yes, and you've read it and you give it to some
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of its all. Wait a minute, it comes there's a big red circle.
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Oh, exactly, get miss that. So we always you know,
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I've got Jennifer and my wife works with me as a legal assistant. She's
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pretty keen and she always reads them and I read them, Tom reads them.
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It says, assumptions are the mothers have all screwed up. Don't just
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don't assume because you've read it once that it's right. And don't get thin
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skin. I mean people send things back to you for revisions and they find
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them mistake. Don't get defensive. I mean that's just the way it is.
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Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody. We're gonna take a break. Okay,
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we're gonna take a break. Now. I can tell you about my scheduling
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mistake that I made. When we get back. Yeah, three or four
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three four five fifty fifty eight three or four three four five fifty eight fifty
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eight. Harvey Payton with a Payton Law Firm. Law firm in Nitro is
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with us. Any questions about the law, Harvey's here to handle those and
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forget Our turkey drop is taking place, so you can drop off a frozen
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turkey in our parking lot eleven eleven Virginia Street East and Charleston. Just drive
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through, drop it off and help some folks and be able to feed some
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folks. Or you can drop off with check or some cash too, well,
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that would be good. I mean, I mean, it's holiday season.
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They just think about you know, little kids. Should anybody go to
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bit hungry and the richest, most powerful nation in the world, It's gonna
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happen. It's going to happen because the poor and underprivilege will always be with
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us at one level or another. It's been that way throughout history. But
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we can help make it better. Right, we have a call. We
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have a call. Jerry is on the line. Jerry, you're on with
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hard Go ahead. Good morning's mornings, Jeri, Hey, good morning,
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Harvey. I hate to bring this up again. But I've talked to you
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about this before. But about a year and a half ago or so,
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I was sitting at a stoplight on my motorcycle when a young girl slammed into
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me so hard that it destroyed my motorcycle and threw me onto the ground at
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seventy one years old. Now, I didn't have any broken bones or anything,
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just your typical scrapes and contusions things like that. So I didn't go
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to the hospital. That accident cost me thirty eight hundred dollars to replace the
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same machine that I was on, And it just seems to me that that
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is wrong in so many ways that due to the negligence of this young driver,
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it cost me thirty eight hundred dollars. And you know, I can't
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get any satisfaction from the insurance company simply because I didn't go to the hospital.
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Blah blah blah. You've got to be have your arms and legs cut
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off before they'll do anything. I'm just curious about what you think about situations
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like mine, where it costs the innocence a lot of money due to the
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negligence of someone else. And I'll take any answer off the air, thank
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you. Well, that's Jerry, that's what we do for a living,
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and a large part of the Picton Law firm, and there is you know,
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there are two parts, are three parts always to any sort of claim.
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Number one is liability. Was a person negligent? Was a person at
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fault? Did they do something that a reasonable person would not do? Did
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they failed to do something a reasonable person would that's number one. Number two,
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was there some injury or loss associated with that? In this case that
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seemed obvious. You had significant property damage, You suffered mild and moderate bodily
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injury, which is not, by the way, contingent exclusively upon going to
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the hospital. You can have pain and suffering and significant recovery without being hospitalized
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on your testimony. I'll tell you a story about that here in a minute.
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Then third is their coverage. If someone who's destitute simply has no assets
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of any kind injures you unless you have some of your own insurance, like
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uninsured motor discoverage, which is mandatory. You've got it because you had a
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policy on your bike. You know, you can payer your walls with judgment
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leans and they're worthless unless there's some pool of funds from which you can satisfy
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your recovery, so you meet all three of the challenges. There's an insurance
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got me involved. If you've got a loss to the bike, that's a
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dollar for dollar, right, that's a figure that can readily be arrived upon
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the owe you the market value of the machine that was totaled, and under
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certain circumstances. I used some money for loss of use, which is generally
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what's going to cost to rent a bike for a day times a number of
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days until they pay you and you can replace it a number And on your
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case, something should be allocated for just paint and suffering and inconvenience. You
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got knocked to the ground, you got skinned up. I got a really
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nice big verdict one time in the certive Court of Campbell count against a fella
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who was a tractor trailer truck cut him into the guard rail down around the
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Milton interchange and stove him up real bad. But he's a he's from up
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the creek. He lived up Heizer Creek, and he only want to go
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to any hospital. So he just sort of went home and crawled into bed
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and got the feeling somewhat better. But he lived pretty much on ibuproof and
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and other things. After that we tried the case. He talked about how
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bad he felt, how he ached all over, and how his wife verified
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that had he got his bills, that he'd paid for all the over the
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counter meds, and the jury awarded him a Now they were aggravating circumstances.
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The truck driver didn't show up, he had a terrible driving record. The
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company had a bonehead defense, but in any of it, the jury in
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Campbell County had no problem awarding the guy with some low six figure money because
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you know, if it had been going on for three years after the accident,
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he presumed it to be permanent. So you know, one thing you
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can do assume them in magistrate court. They've got a jurisdiction up to ten
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thousand bucks. And if you can get a magistrate, I mean some of
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the magistrates aren't aware that they can award damages for paint and suffering, but
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they can. And I think we pretty well established that Tom had a case
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where a magistrate didn't believe it, and we proved it to him in Kanawa
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County. So don't just let it go. I mean, you had to
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have a witness or two to corroborate what you say as far as you're being
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stove up and soar and skinned up, and of course got to get an
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estimate and somebody to testify about the value of your bike. But you know,
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if you win the filing fees less than a hundred bucks, now you
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get your filing fee back plus your damage. Is that the guy's got insurance,
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they're gonna have to pay it. So that's what I would do.
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Thank you, Thank you, Jerry. Thanks for a year and a half
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and you can't get it resolved, see somebody. But the fact that you
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didn't go to the hospital, well, of course that that would be an
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indication that the injury was not severe en I for instance, perhaps, but
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that doesn't mean that it wouldn't keep you off work. Now Jerry's retired.
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But you know that idea that the adjuster is giving you some chin music.
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Well, we didn't go to the hospital. We don't have bad hurt.
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What will you do? Because I'm telling you, and then my wife's gonna
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tell you. And I got the shirt that I was wearing, and see
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where it's got up here, see this blood on it. Here's a couple
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of pictures I took of the bruises on my back. Now, don't tell
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me that, you know, maybe maybe it's not worth What are the jury
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What would the magistrate say? Five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, fifteen
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hundred dollars. What would you take? You got a job, and your
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job's retirement. It's relaxing and working around the house and doing a little reading,
30:07
interacting with your family. Now this person gave you another job, which
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is called coping. Cooping with this soreness and this aggravation and injury, you've
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got well, at minimum wage rates, that's fifty bucks a day to cope.
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And that's the job they gave you. You didn't ask for it.
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That's so I'm giving away. Well, I'm too old to worry about my
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secret closing arguments anymore. But I've used that any number of times with a
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good deal of success. So that's what I would do, period, and
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don't give up. Well, as far as my schedule, you weren't here
30:41
last week, so Coop and I didn't get to talk about predictions. But
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my prediction would have been ni in never in Norman. It wasn't going to
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happen. I mean, I've been out there when they turned over the wagon,
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they ran it so many times. Oklahoma is an extremely talented team.
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Then they have access to the recruiting base in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
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and when they want a specially player, California, California, Florida, any
31:07
place, they go up to the northeast and get offensive Lineman. Was it
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worse than I thought? I thought it was going to be about a three
31:14
touchdown balls that turned out being what four? Five? But things didn't go
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right. The Mountaineers had any number of chances to cut the score by about
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twenty and got inside the five yard line twice and couldn't score, missed somewhat
31:26
shippy field goal. So there's seventeen points that they're still going to I mean,
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you're not going to beat on a talent. The talent basis Oklahoma in
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Norman, and they had just come off two stinking losses and they were ready
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to play, and that's just what happened. But this weekend they're going to
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put a liquing on Cincinnata, Okay, and don Neland's going to be in
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stride. That's right. And the first game he played in Mountaineer Field was
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against Cincinnati. It was. I was there. I heard John Denver seing
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country Roads. Yes, the place wasn't finished yet. It was all rock
32:00
around the edges. You had to walk through a construction site to get there.
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So that's two thirty on Saturday. I won't be at the game because
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in the pre Huggins implosion here, uh, this great package was offered for
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folks. I mean, I love these Thanksgiving tournaments. Last year was in
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Portland, the year before that was in Myrtle Beach, Puerto Rico, Vegas.
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And so the tournament is the Fort Myers tip Off. So but you
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had to buy the package and prepay for the package. This was in March,
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right after the Big twelve tournament, and I thought, well, we
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can't take a looking to a bad Maryland team in the tournament. Well that's
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where we're heading for Fort Myers, Florida. Now Huggy's gone and a great
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deal of what I was looking at is being a national title contender is gone
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through the transfer portal. But you can't give up on them. This team,
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if they can get through, they got one eleven non conference games before
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the first of the year. Now you're looking out there to Ohigh State Cleveland.
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I don't know that's the last non conference game. But suppose they can
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come out of there nine and three or eight and three, that would be
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some accomplishment. Yeah, it would be a major. And then you're thinking,
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well, can you win seven or eight games of the eighteen you're going
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to play in the Big twelve Conference. Well, that's tough. You got
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to win all your road games when you've only got an eight man roster.
33:25
But they need to get the battle appeal. Well, sure, I mean
33:30
you gotta have some shoot the ball. You can't get SETH. Wilson's to
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erratick and KB Johnson's not gonna have a game like that every day. And
33:37
just just look, of course the Monmouth across the board. I thought they
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would outsize and out muscle Monmouth, but Monmouth. Look, King Rice is
33:45
a really good coach. He loves to side of the fact that guy was
33:49
at North Carolina. Yeah, coaching at the highest level and probably should have
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gotten the North Carolina job. And his son was a four year starter at
33:58
buck now which is no chopsticks at a leading score a couple of years and
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comes in there as a graduate assistant playing for his dad and puts up thirty
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and I'm telling you some of them, he looked like a Curry. Oh
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yeah, he looked like Steph Curry. I mean literally, that's how I
34:13
thought of when he threw in a couple of those threes with people in his
34:15
face pushed him out way outside of the three point line. That looks like
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their game against Davidson when Curry put on a show the last two minutes,
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remember and his pull it out and beat us in the garden. Yeah,
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I mean, so they're gonna be games like that. But you know,
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if this team could win sixteen games, seventeen games, they're not going to
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make the tournament, but they're going to play in the postseason, and you
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know, if they get everybody back, anything can happen. We'll see.
34:40
But that was my over eagerness to go to a holiday turn. You're going
34:45
to Fort Meyers. So well, yeah, Tony. I saw Tony at
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the at the Monmouth the Montana State game. He says he's going on Monday.
34:54
Well, he asked it. He's got to do the football on it.
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But the good thing is the games are like eight thirty Monday evening and
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either six o'clock or eight thirty on Wednesday. So if you're going to be
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in Florida, I mean, you've got four full days because the games aren't.
35:09
Last year when we went to Portland, we saw, gosh, there's
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either ten or twelve games in four days because they were right. You know
35:20
that the arenas were right next to each other, and you go, man,
35:23
man, it was a great basketball at eighty kid from Purdue who got
35:28
to see his act. That was something to see. But anyway, all
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